muleback

They came down from the north on foot, muleback, or shaggy little ponies, armed with whips, guns, swords, and sabers.

PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010

They came down from the north on foot, muleback, or shaggy little ponies, armed with whips, guns, swords, and sabers.

PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010

Mourners came on horseback and muleback and in farm wagons and buggies and automobiles.

EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010

Some thirty miles south of Guadalajara, we stopped by the roadside at dusk and left the bus for some refreshments laid out for us inside a patio, and on coming out again found a mildly operatic outfit fumbling with the luggage ropes: three or four men in fine hats and bandanas tied over their faces on muleback, and a pack mule.

A Visit to Don Otavio: A Traveller's Tale from Mexico by Sybille Bedford 2006

Some thirty miles south of Guadalajara, we stopped by the roadside at dusk and left the bus for some refreshments laid out for us inside a patio, and on coming out again found a mildly operatic outfit fumbling with the luggage ropes: three or four men in fine hats and bandanas tied over their faces on muleback, and a pack mule.

A Visit to Don Otavio: A Traveller's Tale from Mexico by Sybille Bedford 2006

Towns too remote for wagon trains were supplied via muleback.

THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

Pioneer photographers carried all their equipment on muleback or in wagons—portable photographic laboratories, including an astonishing variety of materials, from glass plates to iodine, Each view involved unpacking, sensitizing a plate, exposing the plate, developing on the spot, and then repacking.

THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

Crabtree was raised in the tradition of troupers like the George Chapman family, who invented the showboat business on the Mississippi River, and put it on muleback for California miners.

THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

As the passengers scampered ashore to investigate on muleback, Sam fastened his attention on a new object for his off-center reportage, the yammering local guide parroting the same packaged information as the next yammering guide, and the next one after him.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

As the passengers scampered ashore to investigate on muleback, Sam fastened his attention on a new object for his off-center reportage, the yammering local guide parroting the same packaged information as the next yammering guide, and the next one after him.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005