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Wagon Pictures

mustang

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Nevada Ghost Town,,, Royalite,,, not to far from Beatty Nevada.

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State Park just north of Furnace Creek in Death Valley (Borax Mine)
20 teams of mules pulled these wagons. It only rains in Death Valley
when I go there.

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This is The Furnace Cr. Ranch.
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Lone Pine California, Just over the mountain West from Death Valley.
In the Ownes Valley. Just south of Bishop, for you mule riders.

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A little newer version of the horse drawn type.
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This one is in Chugwater Wyoming. One neat little stop.

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Not a wagon, but I thought it would be interesting to most.

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Pioche Nevada Out west of Cedar City UT.
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One I built for the grand kids a few years ago. It's pulled by
one of those Japanese Quarter horses.

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I'd like to see pictures others have of old wagons and the like.
 

High Plains

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Thanks for sharing the photos, Mustang. Harder times and tougher men when those wagons were new.

I've had the good fortune of haying with a team of horses, as well as discing and feeding loose hay from a hay rack a lot. Still, that all seems like a hobby in comparison. If a guy had to spend every day on one of those wagons in the desert, well that would put it in a little different context wouldn't it? :shock: Wish I had photos of those days but I'm afraid my father was more interested in the work than documenting the events!
 

Faster horses

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Those are some really neat wagons mustang.Seeing them takes
you back in time.
Man, think of the horsepower needed to pull them!!!!!!!! :shock:

My father-in-law always maintained the coming of the tractor
sure saved a lot of horses from hard labor. I bet wagons like
these were some he was talking about.
.

Thanks for posting the pictures. I'd like to see them someday.
 

mustang

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High Plains said:
Thanks for sharing the photos, Mustang. Harder times and tougher men when those wagons were new.

I've had the good fortune of haying with a team of horses, as well as discing and feeding loose hay from a hay rack a lot. Still, that all seems like a hobby in comparison. If a guy had to spend every day on one of those wagons in the desert, well that would put it in a little different context wouldn't it? :shock: Wish I had photos of those days but I'm afraid my father was more interested in the work than documenting the events!

I just read a story about the area in which a quote from a book named,, "Death Valley Scotty Told Me" Scotty went to work as a Swamper in about 1884. They were hauling Borax from D Valley to Mojave, 165 miles. In the heat of the summer it got to around 138 degrees. In the spring and fall it was 115 to 120 degrees. They hauled 1200 gallon of water because of the need to make dry camps. Scotty made $ 6.00 a month and pants cost .40 cents. The book is "The Best of the West, by tony Hillerman paage 155.
 

Big Muddy rancher

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When I was a kid I got the model of the 20 mule team Borax pulling those wagons. Loved it but when we moved home to the ranch permanently after i finished school it rode down in a place of honor in the back window of the car. Only problem with a couple of trucks ahead of it to unload the sun got it it and melted some mules.

Funny I never thought of it until now but those poor mules survived Death Valley but not the Big Muddy valley. :shock: :lol: :lol:

Sure liked seeing those pictures. We have remnants of a few binders around the ranch, mostly they have been robbed for scrap irons. The levers work good for making saddle horse latches on swinging gates. :D
 

mustang

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Faster horses said:
Those are some really neat wagons mustang.Seeing them takes
you back in time.
Man, think of the horsepower needed to pull them!!!!!!!! :shock:

My father-in-law always maintained the coming of the tractor
sure saved a lot of horses from hard labor. I bet wagons like
these were some he was talking about.
.

Thanks for posting the pictures. I'd like to see them someday.

I've read that 20 teams were the standard when the mules were big and stout, but they had to add three or four teams when the mules were smaller in size. I'm just happy that I came along when those "evil internal combustion engines" were around. :) :)
 

mustang

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Big Muddy rancher said:
When I was a kid I got the model of the 20 mule team Borax pulling those wagons. Loved it but when we moved home to the ranch permanently after i finished school it rode down in a place of honor in the back window of the car. Only problem with a couple of trucks ahead of it to unload the sun got it it and melted some mules.

Funny I never thought of it until now but those poor mules survived Death Valley but not the Big Muddy valley. :shock: :lol: :lol:

Sure liked seeing those pictures. We have remnants of a few binders around the ranch, mostly they have been robbed for scrap irons. The levers work good for making saddle horse latches on swinging gates. :D

What you needed,,, was the 1200 gallon water wagon to cool those mules down.. :)
 

OldDog/NewTricks

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In the 60's we could still get State Primits to Rope wild Burrows. In Winter Months we go the "Saline Valley" (between Lone Pine and Death Valley) for weeks at time roping wild Horses N Burrows --I just sent some old Super 8 Movies in to see if they can put then on DVD's
 

mustang

Well-known member
OldDog/NewTricks said:
In the 60's we could still get State Primits to Rope wild Burrows. In Winter Months we go the "Saline Valley" (between Lone Pine and Death Valley) for weeks at time roping wild Horses N Burrows --I just sent some old Super 8 Movies in to see if they can put then on DVD's

Does anyone know if it's possible to put old videos on DVD or CD? I have some I could make cartoons out of if it' possible. :)
 

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