Mule Mail

Check out this Mule Mail!!



Does anybody else have any mule mail?

Lucky

I can tell you Leggs doesn't :(

Unless you are Leggs

Colombia SG989 has Mule Post,
and a cigarette card from Achil Island, any good?

Lucky, that is a very nice cover. I never made it to Phantom Ranch at the bottom--only went half way down by mule. The Grand Canyon is truly a wonder to see.

There is a mule train that delivers mail to the Havasupai Indian Reservation near Supai AZ at the Grand Canyon.
http://www.havasupaitribe.com/village.html

There have been special postmarks for "Adams Pack Station" in the past which is near Sierra Madre CA and Chantry Flat just north of Santa Anita.
http://www.adamspackstation.com/

Both of these places have a close relationship with Route 66.

lucky, can we see the front of the postcard please? Thanks!

At Supai they also have had Helicopter Mail. I have a cover that mentions both Mule & Helicopter Mail. I also have a pictorial postmark for Adams Pack Station and one for Sierra Madre's annual Wisteria Festival. Now I'm trying to remember which Route 66 town "Wild Hogs" was filmed in.

"Mailed by mule" is not such a nice commentary on the sender. (Though I don't know the sender...it might be half right.) "Delivered by mule" would be kinder...

Here is the front of the postcard.



My friend said he saw/bought/sent the postcard and then actually saw that scene on the face of a cliff that night. He said he'd started hiking up some little trail that went off into a different canyon than the one he'd been traveling on. At some point on this nightly excursion he stopped and sat on a rock for a puff and looked up at the face of the cliff in front of him and there it was.

Lucky

Was the Bat Cave nearby?

That is some drawing. I am no astronomy person. Does anyone know what stars those are? The constellations?

Very neat postcard and story about the sender. Maybe the stars are part of Orien's belt or Casiopea.

After your posts regarding "stars" I took closer look at the picture and realized that I misunderstood my friend when he said "I looked up and there it was." I assumed it was some sort of natural occurrence on the canyon wall that took on this shape. I just spoke with him and he said "NOOOO, when I looked UP that is the shape that the two canyon rims create." This would explain the stars in the night sky.