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Bill Balfrey's |
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 Bill and Rawhide with one of the old mule snowshoes used around 1900 for delivering the mail in winter. At right, close up of snowshoe: |
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. |
 The Summit in Summer (modern)  |
 The Peters Pack Train  Alonzo Bingham leading a snowshod mule with mail packs |
 Herb Finley at the summit in winter long ago |
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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. |
MULES ON SNOWSHOES $30.00 1 Hour, 25 Minutes |
