He helps Bill and Mary Owens at the Shamrock Ranch near Midwest and has even been known to babysit a flock of ostriches at Glenrock. I've done the Oregon Trail. It's kind of neat that we can still follow the old trails. Ben is using a team of horses to pull his wagon. Eventually he plans to switch to a mule team.
Mules have more stamina.
They got a personality. They don't overdrink or overeat. Last year Ben traveled with the Mormon Trail wagon train from Nauvoo, Ill., to Omaha driving a Percheron team he leased from an Amish farmer. We had such hot weather. Iowa was no way flat.