by | Sep 1, 2007 | Inside History
Why did Mountain Men prefer riding mules over horses? And how come the Indians never rode mules? Paul Gordon St Thomas, Ontario, Canada Mountain Men preferred mules because they were surefooted in rough country and better pack animals. That being said, Mountain Men...
by Michael Piatt | Aug 1, 2007 | Travel & Preservation
Bodie is a ghost town—perhaps the West’s best preserved ghost town, where abandoned weather-beaten buildings stand stoically against encroaching sagebrush. But years ago, the remote mining camp east of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California became the object of a...
by Michael Piatt | Aug 1, 2007 | Travel & Preservation
Bodie is a ghost town—perhaps the West’s best preserved ghost town, where abandoned weather-beaten buildings stand stoically against encroaching sagebrush. But years ago, the remote mining camp east of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California became the object of a...
by Johnny D. Boggs | Aug 1, 2007 | Travel & Preservation
I haven’t seen fog this thick since … well, I’m not sure I’ve ever seen fog this thick, unless you count the time I walked into the room across the hall at my college dorm, and that fog wasn’t, ahem, natural. This is the kind of fog you expect to find on the...
by Johnny D. Boggs | Aug 1, 2007 | Travel & Preservation
I haven’t seen fog this thick since … well, I’m not sure I’ve ever seen fog this thick, unless you count the time I walked into the room across the hall at my college dorm, and that fog wasn’t, ahem, natural. This is the kind of fog you expect to find on the...