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15 lis 2021 · A cross between a female horse and a male donkey, mules were brought to Missouri from Mexico in the 1820s via the Santa Fe Trail. In 1821, William Becknell led a party from Franklin, located on the Missouri River in Howard County, to Santa Fe.
3 paź 2020 · Duane Dailey’s Missouri Men and Mules will be on display at the McDougall Gallery in Lee Hills Hall through October 2020.
A long-standing Mule Farm is home to six mules and the Mule Club at MU. The club has been a part of many important Missouri traditions as every year the memb...
5 lut 2020 · Missouri Mules. by Joshua Heston. A long, hot dusty furrow. Summer sun beating down. Heat rippling the blue hills beyond. A bony old mule labors for a Missouri farmer, weathered lines of his face matching the ribs showing on the animal. Creak of leather, soft pad of foot and hoof.
20 lip 2021 · Former President Harry Truman and a Missouri mule at the state fair on August 23, 1955. As a young man, Truman worked on his family’s farm for eleven years where he plowed many fields with mules. The sturdy animals were first brought to Missouri by traders along the Santa Fe Trail in the 1820s.
The Documentary Project Features Work by Agricultural Journalist Duane Dailey By Annie Rees Columbia, Mo. (Sept. 19, 2014) — A new exhibition, “Missouri Mules and Men,” is now on display at the McDougall Center Gallery in Lee Hills Hall at the Missouri School of Journalism.
29 sie 2016 · Today, the mule still serves as Missouri’s official state animal, so the connection remains strong. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has put together a great photo slideshow about the history of these iconic equines and their role in the Show-Me State— click here to see the full slideshow !
