mule train

Historical Examples

• I soon secured transportation with a mule-train for Deadwood.

  Thirty Years on the Frontier

  Robert McReynolds

• There is no chance of stopping another reco (that is, a mule-train, sirs) now.

  Westward Ho!

  Charles Kingsley

• The mule-train with our tents and baggage passed us in the valley while we were sweltering under the hawthorns.

  Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land

  Henry Van Dyke

• The freight capacity of the mule-train placed a narrow limit upon the profits and extent of trade.

  The Last American Frontier

  Frederic L. (Frederic Logan) Paxson

• The enemy was still pressing on, and the mule-train of small ammunition could not be got up under the heavy fire.

  The Campaign of Chancellorsville

  Theodore A. Dodge