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Bill Balfrey's MULES ON SNOWSHOES
Bill and "Rawhide" with one of the old mule snowshoes used around 1900 for delivering the mail in winter. Below, close up of snowshoe:
Herb Finley at the summit in winter long ago. MULES ON SNOWSHOES
$30.00
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Bill Balfrey takes us on a trip back through time, into the rugged Siskiyou
Mountains, to a time when the mail was carried by Mule Train to remote mountain
villages - and in the winter, the mules really did wear snowshoes!
This video is based on a popular lecture delivered by Bill to the Back Country Horsemen of California. Bill Balfrey is a 4th generation resident of tiny and remote Etna, California, as well as a retired psychology professor at College of the Siskiyous. He is a master mule packer himself, and offers the viewer a treasure trove of history and lore.
The Peters Pack Train
Alonzo Bingham leading a snowshod mule with mail packs.
Summit in Summer
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