BIG LAKE — The mules seemed out of place. Ron Denn had trailered three mules to a gravel lot on the edge of Sand Dunes State Forest. They were saddled up and tied to a hitching post. Ahead lay a sandy ...

It's taken years of groundwork to improve a trail just south of Bloomington in Indiana's only wilderness area. Most trails are easier to maintain or reroute than the ones in the Charles C. Deam ...

There were three options: Use human labor to hike in lumber to repair a bridge along the Gore Range Trail, use mules to hike it in, or don't repair the bridge at all. Thankfully (for the trail teams) ...

Gregory Crouch’s review of Rinker Buck’s “The Oregon Trail” (Books, Aug. 1) properly emphasizes the superior value of mules versus horses as motive power for hauling covered wagons overland. But a ...

SILVERTHORNE, Colorado (KCNC) — There were three options: Use human labor to hike in lumber to repair a bridge along the Gore Range Trail, use mules to hike it in, or don’t repair the bridge at all.

GRAND CANYON – Thousands of years ago, in what’s now Turkey, someone bred a horse with a donkey. The mule was born, and the sturdy hybrids soon were put to work across the globe. Cars and trucks have ...

Trail head: To reach the main staging area for the Mule Hill Historic Trail, exit Interstate 15 at Via Rancho Parkway in Escondido, heading east. At the first intersection, turn right onto Sunset ...

In December 1788, a few weeks before the Electoral College convened to elect him as the United States’ first president, George Washington wrote to British agriculturalist Arthur Young. In his letter, ...

Two acres and a mule. That’s all Will Green thought he would need to lead a life of packing and hunting in California’s backcountry. He bought the 2 acres on a windblown patch of the western Mojave.