Burro Train
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Unknown Unknown 1600.0214.0001.jpg M - 214 B&W 1600-0214-0001 m214pa Postcard 3x5 Historic Photographs 1915 Reproduction requires permission. Digital images property of SHM Library & ArchivesDescription
Image from a black & white postcard showing a train of burros on a mountainous slope. Handwriting on the left margin says: “Burros packing ore up mountains to Jerome copper shelter, 1915.”
Burros worked both alongside individual prospectors as well as for full-scale mining operations, especially before the arrival of trains. Teams of burros, donkeys and mules were the ‘semi’s’ of the early West, they were surefooted and able to carry and pull heavy loads up steep and treacherous mountainous trails, such as the geography of Jerome cited in this postcard. They had a fairly calm temperament and did not 'spook' easily as well; horses could not match their abilities in these regards.
The importance of these animals diminished as trains and motor-driven vehicles arrived on the scene.
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