DCHP-3

mule train†

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a train of mules used for packing goods.

Quotations

1859
Goods are reported scarce on the Upper Fraser; and mule-trains eagerly looked for by the hardy miners who anxiously desire to lay in a supply of provisions for the winter.
1957
A good mule could cover the distance from Yale to Quesnel in a month, having leapt like a mountain goat through the treacherous Fraser Canyon carrying a 250-lb load--at $ 1.00 a lb.--and most "mule trains" made money.