Sentence examples for ox team from inspiring English sources

Such a system allowed little room for individual initiative; everyone followed established routines, with the pace of the work set by the ox team.

1994 - Farmer with an ox team in the Vinales Valley, Cuba.

In 1925, Meeker drove an ox team for several months while touring in J.C. Miller's Wild West Show.

He took his ox team and wagon across the nation to publicize his cause, parking his rig in front of the White House where he met President Theodore Roosevelt.

Meeker had taken an ox team and wagon to Portland's Lewis and Clark Exposition in 1905; en route he had kept his eyes open for places to set up suitable monuments on the Cowlitz Trail, on which pioneers had journeyed from the Columbia River to Puget Sound.

At a stop in Boise, Meeker quipped they were making better time than with his ox team, and in Dayton met aviation pioneer Orville Wright, to whom he commented, "You'd be surprised at the difference between riding in a Prairie Schooner and in an airplane".

Below the snowy peaks, farmers living in mud houses busily plough their fields with ox teams.

Ox teams were not controlled with reins, and drivers walked alongside the animals.

Ox teams were not controlled with reins, so the driver walked alongside the animals, using a whip and spoken commands to guide them.

On its walls, photographs taken here in the late 19th and early 20th centuries show stagecoaches and gold miners, loggers and their ox teams pulling trees out of the woods to make houses and build cities.

The Reeds hired three men to drive the ox teams: Milford (Milt) Elliot, 28; James Smith, 25; and Walter Herron, 25.