ox-team

John Bellew came of the old hard and hardy stock that had crossed the plains by ox-team in the fifties, and in him was this same hardness and the hardness of a childhood spent in the conquering of a new land.

THE TASTE OF THE MEAT 2010

I walked across the Plains with an ox-team and fit Injuns in '51, and I was a family man then with seven youngsters.

Chapter VIII 2010

I walked across the Plains with an ox-team and fit

Chapter XXII 2010

His father drove an ox-team across the Plains to Oregon.

THEFT 2010

Kit's uncle John Bellew, who came west in an ox-team in the 1850s, is taking his sons north and so Kit quits The Billow to go along.

“I am only a wild girl, and I am afraid of the world....” 2008

I walked for nearly an hour, heated and hungry, when to my joy I saw the ox-team halted across the top of a gorge, and one of the teamsters leading the horse towards me.

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains 2007

Along the routes of the ox-team freighters, small settlements were established at natural stopping places—water supply and pasturage.

THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

But I am sure those ladies could have been of noble descent only in the farthest possible remove, and I do not suppose their cows were even remotely related to the haughty ox-team which blocked the way in front of the palaces and obliged xis to dismount while our carriage was lifted round the cart.

Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

Our driver was coldly disgusted, but the driver of the ox-team preserved a calm as perfect as if he had been an hidalgo interested by the incident before his gate.

Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

And we have a strong ox-team, and the field has length enough to get a team of six into the yoke.

The Potter's Field Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1989