Advantages of Mules
"The advantages of mules have been known since ancient times. Fully grown mules tend to have the height and musculature of their mother, while inheriting the leaner physique and more nimble legs…
"The advantages of mules have been known since ancient times. Fully grown mules tend to have the height and musculature of their mother, while inheriting the leaner physique and more nimble legs…
"The early descendants of the Mount Vernon stock-tall, drafty, and weighing between a thousand and 1,200 pounds-were initially called 'American Mammoth' mules, but the breed name gradually changed as the frontier moved west.…
"White man never hated red man with more than a mule's hatred; and keen, indeed, must be his ear, and quick his voice, who would discover the approach and give the alarm of…
"The only mules emigrants could buy seemed to be unbroken ones. McIlhany says it took him a month to 'get acquainted' with mules purchased at St. Joe . . .…