A fully loaded mule train is a rare sight in most parts of the country, but traditional livestock packing is still thriving in Glacier National Park. Swinging a leg over his saddle, Dave Elwood ...

ALDER — Not a breath of air stirs along the parched landscape leading up into the Gravelly Range, but that doesn't seem to matter to the pack string of mules moving steadily along the dusty trail.

A Vancouver Barracks mule train returns from the Lacamas Creek artillery range (renamed Camp Bonneville in 1909) along the city streets around 1908. The convoy heads down 10th Street (now Evergreen ...

A backcountry animal packing demonstration at Ninemile Ranger District, Lolo National Forest in Montana. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service Northern Region Pack Train will be working ...

AGES before the birth of the first wheelwright, some prehistoric innovator bound his burden upon a captive ass, while himself went straight-backed and free. The pack-mule, or “ sumpter mule ” of ...

Darío Higuera Meza, a 70-year-old saddle maker in Baja California, traveled 200 miles in 20 days by muleback, herding a pack train of donkeys all the way to La Paz. Overcoming health issues, ...