STRASBURG, Pa. — The mules fussed and the wagon’s steel wheels rattled in the rose-lit dawn as Samuel Beiler, an Amish farmer, headed up the hill to his fields. It is the tobacco harvest season in ...

The mules fussed and the wagon`s steel wheels rattled in the rose-lit dawn as Samuel Beiler, an Amish farmer, headed up the hill to his fields. It is the tobacco harvest season in Lancaster County and ...

That little sign hung on the back of the covered wagon that Rinker Buck and his brother Nick drove across the entire Oregon Trail in 2011. Thanks to the grit and muscles of three mules Buck had ...

Staring at his shoes, he said, How can I explain? You have to appreciate that we people... he began before lifting his head and finding a new firmness in his tone. It was God s way of taking life, and ...

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Shorty, the world's tallest mule, likely will leave his Tennessee farm for a career in the circus or in competition weight-pulling -- but not before he makes a guest appearance at one Charleston ...