pack-trains

“He made the study of pack-trains the great study of his life,” wrote Bourke.

Once They Moved Like the Wind David Roberts 1994

“He made the study of pack-trains the great study of his life,” wrote Bourke.

Once They Moved Like the Wind David Roberts 1994

Every year, pack-trains were lost to causes unknown, and more than a few travelers desperate or stupid enough to journey alone never reached their destinations.

The Elvenbane Lackey, Mercedes 1991

"Then guard your pack-trains, merchant, if guards keep these vermin hidden."

The Oathbound Lackey, Mercedes 1988

Longknife had managed to unite all the little bandit groups into one single band with the promise that they would be able-under his leadership'to take even the most heavily guarded pack-trains.

The Oathbound Lackey, Mercedes 1988

Russia will, in Afghanistan, depend upon the animals of the country for pack-trains and saddle purposes.

Afghanistan and the Anglo-Russian Dispute Theo. F. Rodenbough

This house was a small wayside inn, situated where a miners 'trail crossed the emigrant route; a roughly-made, two-story, frame building, with a corral adjoining; at which mule pack-trains stopped overnight, when carrying supplies from Sacramento and Marysville for miners working the gold placer diggings along the American and Yuba rivers.

Crossing the Plains, Days of '57 A Narrative of Early Emigrant Tavel to California by the Ox-team Method

Prospectors and pack-trains had left trails here and there.

Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Jewett Castello Gilson

Major Rucker fulfilled this duty perfectly, sending out pack-trains loaded with food by the many routes by which the immigrants were known to be approaching, went out himself with one of these trains, and remained in the mountains until the last immigrant had got in.

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

All goods were transported by pack-trains, and the trails over the mountains were nearer the head of the bay.

A Backward Glance at Eighty Murdock, Charles A 1921