Before the invention of the tractor, farmers and others in professions who had heavy hauling or pulling chores to do chose working cattle (better known as oxen) for the job. When settlers started ...

At four o'clock in the morning (during the years 1833-37) Joseph Glidden and his son Mark left their home, starting their day of drawing stone from the quarries in Barre to the new state capitol at ...

Forget all those images you’ve seen in movies and on television of wagon trains being pulled by teams of horses. Most of the westward trek by settlers in the 19th century was accomplished, not by ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

If you’re heading into the wilds for the first time, it’s good to have a guidebook that offers practical information on potential routes, how to prepare for your trip and the gear you need. For ...

Gregory Crouch’s review of Rinker Buck’s “The Oregon Trail” (Books, Aug. 1) properly emphasizes the superior value of mules versus horses as motive power for hauling covered wagons overland. But a ...

Starting in the 1840s, the jumping off place for both the Oregon and the Santa Fe trails was Independence, Mo., where pioneers got wagons, oxen and the supplies they would need for the 2,000 mile trip ...

These days people get deliveries from the FedEx driver. But 150 years ago, people got deliveries from the FedOx driver: the ox freighter. Fort Worth’s first ox freighter was John White. In the 1850s ...