6 Million Mules

How we ran the nation before it became mechanized. Here is the history of the American mule in numbers. In 1786, there were zero—at least none on record in the new United States. In 2007, there were 28,000. But in 1925—the very peak of American muledom— there were nearly 6 million mules in the United …

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