"Arizona Lifeline"

ART PRINT
 PRODUCED FROM AN ORIGINAL OIL PAINTING BY FRED LUCAS

Historical Story:

"Stretch out!  Stretch out! "  At this order, great trains of mule-drawn freight wagons took up lines of march.  In these slow moving unsprung wagons moved the lifeblood of the struggling young towns and mining camps - food, clothing, machinery, furniture, manufactured goods, everything imaginable!  

After Fort Yuma was founded in 1850, it became the primary port of entry to supply the development of Arizona.  Vital goods were shipped from San Francisco to Yuma by steamboat, then transported by freight outfits over the Cooke trails along the Gila River.   They stretched out a transportation line through Gila City, the Pima Villages, passed Picacho Peak (depicted in painting) and on to Tucson, Benson and Willcox.

The men who worked the wagon trains, wagonmasters and mule skinners, were a breed apart.  The business was hard, dirty and dangerous, but a vital commercial industry essential to the trade, settlement and expansion of civilization in the Southwest.  The freight lines were the lifelines, the cords that held the desert west together.  

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Matted Western Prints	11x14	$29.00

Matted Western Prints are double matted and shrink-wrapped.  
Total size including mat is 11"x14".