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| | Fort Steele Heritage Town - 8 - Geary & Doyle Livery Stable (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23) |
 | | Just as the harness maker was central to the repair and manufacture of harness, and the flsmith to wagon repairs, so was the livery stable central to the care and maintenance of horses and the delivery of goods and services. |
 | | Soon livery stables were entering directly into commerce, contracting services for delivering goods, offering teams for construction, logging, and other heavy enterprises, and providing a network of rental and drop stations whereby a traveller could leave a horse at one place, travel by stage or boat, and rent another at a new point. |
 | | Under Doyle, whose word was his bond, the livery stable became, to a certain extent, a men's social club with a bottle of whiskey and a deck of cards waitingin the office. |
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