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Even as vendors touted advantages of more complicated prostheses over simple peg legs, [3] according to a contemporary surgeon, many patients found a peg leg more comfortable for walking. [4] According to medical reports, some amputees were able to adjust to the use of a peg leg so well that they could walk 10, or even 30, miles in one day. [5]
A Peg leg is an artificial leg. Pegleg, Peg Leg or Peg-Leg may also refer to: Richard Lonergan (1900–1925), American mobster and labor racketeer nicknamed "Peg Leg" Joe "Pegleg" Morgan (1929–1993), first non-Hispanic member of the Mexican Mafia, an American criminal organization; Thomas L. Smith (1801–1866), American mountain man
Eddie “Peg” or “Peg Leg” Lightfoot was born Edward Rodgers on January 14, 1895, in Memphis, Tennessee to a Victoria Dickerson (b.1878) and an unnamed father. . Victoria married a Burl Lightfoot (b.1868) sometime prior to 1900 and Burl appears to have adopted Edward between 1900 and 1910 as his legal name changed to “Eddie Lightfoot” in that year's census (which also states an ...
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Beckwith began her YouTube channel, Footless Jo, during her recovery from amputation in 2018. [3] In 2019, the channel became more prominent following a video she released titled, "How I Said Goodbye to My Ankle". That video went viral and garnered over 8 million views. [2] Footless Jo focuses on amputation, disability, and mental health.
Follow the Drinking Gourd is an African-American folk song first published in 1928. The "drinking gourd" is another name for the Big Dipper asterism.Folklore has it that enslaved people in the United States used it as a point of reference so they would not get lost during their journey of escape to the North and to freedom.
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Peg Leg Pete. This short features Peg Leg Pete, an updated version of the character Bootleg Pete from Alice Solves the Puzzle. Peg Leg Pete would later become a cat as the modern-day Disney character, Pete. The plot of this short would later be re-purposed in the 1929 Mickey Mouse cartoon, Plane Crazy. Both shorts were directed by Walt Disney ...