These days people get deliveries from the FedEx driver. But 150 years ago, people got deliveries from the FedOx driver: the ox freighter. Fort Worth’s first ox freighter was John White. In the 1850s ...

Before the invention of the tractor, farmers and others in professions who had heavy hauling or pulling chores to do chose working cattle (better known as oxen) for the job. When settlers started ...

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Gregory Crouch’s review of Rinker Buck’s “The Oregon Trail” (Books, Aug. 1) properly emphasizes the superior value of mules versus horses as motive power for hauling covered wagons overland. But a ...

This must be the ultimate oxymoron: typing up a travel article on a laptop while sitting in an ox-wagon in the middle of nowhere. The only other living creatures to be seen are fluffy white goats ...