Twenty-mule teams were teams of eighteen mules and two horses attached to large wagons that transported borax out of Death Valley from 1883 to 1898. They...
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20 Mule Team Borax is a brand of cleaner manufactured in the United States by The Dial Corporation, a subsidiary of Henkel. The product primarily consists...
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operation became famous through the use, from 1883 to 1889, of large twenty-mule teams and double wagons which hauled borax the long overland route to the...
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20 Mule Team (also known as Twenty Mule Team) is a 1940 American western film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Marjorie Rambeau, Anne Baxter and...
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Appalachian Mountains. Even larger wagons were built, such as the twenty-mule team wagons, used for hauling borax from Death Valley, which could haul...
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be mined was borax, which was transported out of the valley with twenty-mule teams. The valley later became the subject of books, radio programs, television...
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California State Route 58 in Boron. It provides access to downtown Boron as Twenty Mule Team Road. It also follows the former routing of U.S. Route 466. It is signed...
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mined, and how it is used Twenty Mule Team Museum, adjacent to the Saxon Aerospace Museum, explains the Twenty-mule teams that originally hauled borax...
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tools and equipment of the Pacific Coast Borax Company, models of twenty-mule team wagon trains, pioneer artifacts and mineral specimens. "The Inn at...
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United States (California) VI Endor Forest scenes on the moon of Endor Twenty-Mule Team Canyon, Death Valley, California United States (California) VI Tatooine:...
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expedition of Alta California (1776). In the late 19th century, the Twenty-Mule Team Trail, which carried loads of borax to the railhead in Mojave from...
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Announcer. Wilkof plays the banjo and sings in the musical quartet Twenty Mule Team Weiner Train. He is the winner of the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest...
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week before his death. He was always a one-man entry in the local "Twenty Mule Team Days", greeting fellow residents while walking the parade route. He...
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1889, the town was the western terminus of the 165-mile (266 km), twenty-mule team at Harmony Borax Works in Death Valley. It later served as headquarters...
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carrying bulk loads. It was usually drawn by one horse. Wagon: See also twenty mule team Wain: Early English name for a wagon, especially those used in farm...
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Charlie Chan and Laurel and Hardy features. Fowley's films include Twenty Mule Team, Fall Guy, Mighty Joe Young, Angels in the Outfield, Battleground,...
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elsewhere and makes several fortunes in farming and the mining of borax. Twenty-Mule-Team Borax Francis Marion Smith This article incorporates text from a publication...
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that the bars of the refined metals waited in large stacks before twenty-mule team teamsters could haul it to Los Angeles. The trying three-week (one...
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the Gobi Desert. Caravan (travellers) Caravanserai Cariboo camels Twenty mule team BBC: "Dying trade of the Sahara camel train" (2006) Lattimore, Owen...
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horse-drawn fire engine to a miniature replica of a borax hauling "Twenty Mule Team" and utensils necessary to survive the prairie and wilderness. A common...
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alignments of this portion of the trail followed the late 19th century Twenty-mule team roads built to haul gold from the Cerro Gordo Mines across the Mojave...
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Borax Company. He died three years after his retirement, in 1936. Twenty Mule Team Borax Borate and Daggett Railroad Trona Railway Category: Death Valley...
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and the town's history. For two years, it was the terminal of the Twenty-mule team run from Death Valley, but after one of their swampers, William Pitt...
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Norman Livermore. On the event of the 50th anniversary in 2019, a twenty-mule team hauled a reproduction train of borax wagons. The two borax wagons and...
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Pacific Coast Borax Company in the early 20th century. The company's twenty-mule teams were used to transport borax from its mining operations in Death Valley...
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southern England, as were very large ox teams used in 19th century South Africa (see ox-wagon). Twenty-mule teams were used in the mid-19th century for...
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Death Valley, borax mining tools and equipment, minerals, models of Twenty-mule team wagon trains Calaveras County Museum San Andreas Calaveras Gold Country...
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linked Death Valley with Johannesburg. The route was also part of the Twenty Mule Team Borax Route, and it served as one of three water stops along the 165-mile...
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from the original on October 23, 2008. Retrieved October 30, 2008. "Two Mules and a Motorist". Sunset — the Pacific Monthly. 29. San Francisco, California:...
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partner of [(Francis Marion Smith)][circular reference] the founder of Twenty Mule Team Borax and for whom Zabriskie Point in Death Valley is named, George...
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