Read about John Good and then answer the question. Why did John Good mark the horseshoes with bent nails? so he would know which horses were his so he could identify members of the Ku Klux Klan so he could hurt the horses that belonged to Klan members John Good . . . used to shoe the horses for the Ku Klux. He would mark the horseshoes with a bent nail or something like that; then, after a raid, he could go out in the road and see if a certain horse had been rode; so he began to tell on the Ku Klux. As soon as the Ku Klux found out they was being give away, they suspicioned John. They went to him and made him tell how he knew who they was. They kept him in hiding, and when he told his tricks, they killed him. –Ben Johnson 1874

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