BILLINGS COUNTY, N.D. — When it comes to building a bridge, there are two obvious necessities: people and equipment. If that bridge is in the western North Dakota Badlands, a crew of pack mules can ...

Meet an aging vaquero who guards much of the Old Californio traditional knowledge. It's all about cowboys, mules and desert trails... but it's so much more! An aging vaquero who lives in the heart of ...

ALDER — Not a breath of air stirs along the parched landscape leading up into the Gravelly Range, but that doesn't seem to matter to the pack string of mules moving steadily along the dusty trail.

Pack mules aren't something you might immediately associate with the state of Idaho, but the area actually has a strong history with pack trains, which were often utilized to bring supplies to rural ...