Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. Mule teams would carry freight through the deserts to Los Angeles before the railroads went there. Remi Nadeau originated the 20 mule team until the railroads were built. Two twenty-mule teams in the desert. Three wagon carts can be seen attached to the front mule train. People and mules and horses and single wagons can be seen to the left of the picture. Related to "What Became of the 20-Mule Freighters?" Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct 1935: H16. Copy photo Original photograph probably taken in the 1870s. Handwritten on negative sleeve: 2892. 20 mule Team [stamped:] Nov 22 1935
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