When motoring up to Big
Trees Grove in the opening years of the 20th century, many visitors
encountered an earlier form of working transportation.
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| Author's Personal Collection |
“Five teams of eight oxen
each were passed, drawing loads of redwood to the Cowell lime kilns. The squatty beasts were harnessed with the
same primitive yokes that the ancients used for their beasts … The oxen plodded
along in the rut straining their yokes and humbly obedient to the long prod of
the teamster. Civilization has not invented a softer yoke than that worn by the
beasts that drew Tubal Cain’s first plow.”
Source: “You Are Immense, Is
Captain’s Vote,” San Francisco Call, May 5, 1908 by Arthur Price.
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