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Newspaper Notes - 1860's (NN-1860-69)(1860s) (238 pages)

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=95— bell tied around the bell mare's neck with his own beloved mare and will follow her anyplace. At night the bell mare is often tethered amongst the mules and her closeness, assured by the occasional tinkling of the bell, comforts pack mules and quiets their fears. The Spaniards and Mexicans packed with mules along the trails of Old Mexico long before this beast of burden was introduced into America. In 1823 Stephen Cooper, returning to Franklin, Missouri, from a trading expedition to Santa Fe, herded four hundred mules, jennies, and Spanish jacks that he had purchased in Santa Fe. These jacks sired the first Missouri mules. From this modest beginning, ultimately sprang a great herd of thousands of mules that became renowned, desired, exploited, loved, and hated according to the circumstances. Although mules are unable to reproduce themselves, the rapid expansion of their kind is quite remarkable. In fact, the Missouri mule, as onery as he is, qualifies as an American institution. During the California gold rush of 1849, the mule was of great economic importance to the pack trains operating out of the Marysville area, bound for the remote gold diggings in the Sierra Nevada. Marysville soon became an important shipping center to the gold country. On easterly trails out of this settlement in the early 1850's, mile long columns of dust drifted from the hooves of a thousand mules plodding toward the distant Sierra Nevada. "All along the Yuba Road at any hour of the day droves of pack mules can be seen on their way to the.