I have known wagon-masters who really did not know how to straighten out a six-mule team, or, indeed, put the harness on them properly.
I could not, and for this reason: they are too complicated, and they are much too light to carry the ordinary load of a six-mule team.
We had left Boise with a four-mule team, but at the end of the first day our lead-mules gave out, and we had to hire a pair of ponies to take their places.
Mr. Delameter said: "There were several wagons of 16 mules and who drove the first of these, I do not know, but I do know who drove the first 20 mule team.
Fairbanks came into town one day with his sweat-stained 16 mule team, noticed the abandoned coffins, picked out the largest and best and gave Greenwater its first watering trough, which was used as long as the town lasted.
I said, "Mr. Stiles, do you know who drove the first 20 mule team in Death Valley?
After reducing us to riding in a mule team, they were heartless enough to laugh!
The girls have just got back, riding in a mule team, on top of baggage, but without either mother or any of our affairs.
We met many on the road, nearly all of whom talked to us, and as they were most respectful in their manner (though they saw us in a mule team!
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