20 mule team model

20 mule team model, pieces for the mules only, not the wagon. Brown plastic mules, come in 2 pieces, and need to be snapped together. Also comes with instructions, and the wagon driver. Made by United States Borax & chemical Corporaqtion, Los Angeles, New York. These model kits originated as a promotional program for 20 Mule Team Borax in 1954.
Our 20 Mule Team� is an accurate I/67th scale
model and authentic replica of the great twenty mule
team wagon train of Pacific Coast Borax Company
(now U.S. Borax) which, over 100 years ago, hauled
borax across the blistering deserts of Death Valley.
These great mule teams traveled 162 miles from
Furnace Creek in Death Valley to Mojave,
California; and from the mines at Old Borate to
Dagget, the nearest railroad points. Their routes
carried them over some of the most forbidding land
on the face of the earth.
There was not a single house or any other sign of
habitation along the Death Valley trail. One stretch
of 60 miles was without water. In the summer,
temperatures ranged from 136 degrees to 150
degrees.
The twenty mule teams could cover from 16 to 18
miles a day. Camp was made on the desert floor each
night. The one-way trip, from mine to railroad point,
took about ten days.