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Twenty-mule teams (actually 18 mules and 2 horses) were used to pull these wagons filled with borax ores and water, weighing more than 34 tons, the 165 miles from Death Valley to a train depot in Mojave desert. This specimen is at the Harmony Borax Works Museum in Furnace Creek, Death Valley.

 

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Peter

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Peter -

 

Gorgeous for composition, light, color, detail and texture. I'm not sure if you're old enough to remember advertisements for 20-Mule-Team Borax, which if memory serves, was one of the sponsors of Death Valley Days, which had Ronal Reagan as its host.

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Hi Peter,

Excellent image, composition and colors.

Like the landscape!

What year?

All the best

Ruben

 

Ruben,

 

Thank you. These ran for about 6 years in the 1880s. When less remote borax mines were found, these mines were shut down.

 

Peter

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Peter -

 

Gorgeous for composition, light, color, detail and texture. I'm not sure if you're old enough to remember advertisements for 20-Mule-Team Borax, which if memory serves, was one of the sponsors of Death Valley Days, which had Ronal Reagan as its host.

 

Stuart,

 

Having grown up in Korea in those years, I missed those TV shows. Otherwise, I would be (barely) old enough to have watched and remembered those shows.

 

Thank you for your comments.

 

Peter

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Beautiful image Peter. I love the colors, esp the red patina. I suspect that B&W conversion would expound the tonal range and texture as well. Well done.

 

Virgil,

 

Thank you. I triedd a B&W conversion. Here's the result:

 

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I think colors add something to this picture, so I slightly prefer the color version.

 

Peter

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Jaap,

 

Thank you. That was a great suggestion. I like it a lot.

 

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Peter,

 

This is lovely and excellently taken and would definitely work in any version you'd like.

Personally, I'd spend some time cloning that sign out. They always seem to stick them in the worst places, don't they!

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Peter -

 

Gorgeous for composition, light, color, detail and texture. I'm not sure if you're old enough to remember advertisements for 20-Mule-Team Borax, which if memory serves, was one of the sponsors of Death Valley Days, which had Ronal Reagan as its host.

 

"20-Mule-Team Borax was one of the sponsors of Death Valley Days which had Ronald Reagan as its host."

 

Absolutely no offence, Stuart, but did you make that up?

 

As a pure statement, I find it surreal.

 

Cheers, Ken.

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20-Mule-Team Borax, which if memory serves, was one of the sponsors of Death Valley Days, which had Ronal Reagan as its host.

 

Wonderful photograph.

 

I, too, remember what Stuart has reported.

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