mule team
Hauling hybrid equines
A mule team is a group of mules harnessed together to pull a heavy load—a wagon, plow, or mining equipment.
Before mechanization, mule teams were essential for hauling freight across difficult terrain: a twenty-mule team pulled borax wagons out of Death Valley.
The phrase evokes an era of animal-powered labor and rugged frontier work.
- wagonWheeled hauling vehicle
- harnessStraps controlling an animal
- boraxSodium borate compound
- desertTo leave behind completely
- haulingTransporting heavy items
long haul · teamster · pulling power · hard work · driver · yoke · pack · pack animal · beast of burden · burro · donkey · trail · freight · dust · dirt road · reins · load · prairie
- frontierfrontier, pioneer, pioneers, settlers, settler
- Frontier Transportcovered wagon, stagecoach, prairie schooner, Conestoga wagon, wagon train
- Pioneer TrailsOregon Trail, Santa Fe Trail, Mormon Trail, covered wagons, wagon trains
- Mormon PioneersMormon Trail, handcarts, covered wagons, Brigham Young, pioneer settlements
mule teamhorse team
Harnessed equines working together
draft horses · ox team · Clydesdales · oxen · camel caravan
mule teamtractor
Agricultural pulling vehicle
truck · locomotive · steam engine · motorized vehicle · diesel engine
mule, team, mules, teams, teamed, teaming, teammate, teammates, teamwork