The 20-Mule-Team brigade
by Pacific Coast Borax Company
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About This Book
Twenty-mule teams were teams of eighteen mules and two horses attached to large wagons that ferried borax out of Death Valley from 1883 to 1889. They traveled from mines across the Mojave Desert to the nearest railroad spur, 165 miles (275 km) away in Mojave, California. The routes were from Furnace Creek, California, to Mojave, California, and from the mines at Old Borate to Mojave.
Chapters (13)
- THE 20-MULE-TEAM BRIGADE Being a story in Jingles of the good works and adventures of the famous “Twenty-Mule-Team”
- THE TWENTY-MULE-TEAM BRIGADE
- THE BATTLE OF DISH PAN HILL
- ACCIDENT ON THE WAY TO NURSERY
- THE BATTLE OF ROCKY POINT
- THE MELTING OF MT. WASHINGTON
- THE BRIGADE TAKES A BATH
- AN APRIL FOOL ON THE MARCH
- A NIGHT ATTACK
- A SILENT SENTINEL
- A RATHER STICKY EXPERIENCE
- A CASE OF CHICKEN-POX
- A FUNNY INCIDENT
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