PODCAST: How Animals (and their people) Went West

Podcast: 45 Minutes

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Yeah, these are the only working animals I can handle. Find out now how people and animals worked together on the wagon trails across America. Oh, and this isn’t a covered wagon that’s being depicted in Omaha, Nebraska, but a stagecoach. Wagons across America were seldom pulled by horses. Image: Annette Laing, 2022

This is the podcast version of this Annette Tells Tales post about the animals that pulled the wagons to California (and Oregon). Both post and podcast are my take on the work of my fellow historian, Diana L. Ahmad, in her marvelous book Success Depends on the Animals, which I recommend to you.

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