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This was the first occasion in which any of the horses had strayed even a short distance away from the bell. They had always kept within sound of it on the journey and during the night. The bell is hung round the neck of the most willing horse of the pack, and from that moment he takes the lead. Till he moves on, it is almost impossible to force any of the others forward. If you keep back your horse for a mile of two when on the march, and then give him rein, he dashes on in frantic eagerness to catch up the the rest. Get hold of the bell-horse when you want to start in the morning, and ring the bell and soon all the others in the pack gather round.
The Rev'd George M. Grant, Ocean to Ocean, (Sandford Fleming's Expedition through Canada in 1872), Toronto and London, 1873, p. 272.
PLACE: Rocky Mountains, Canada.
TIME: 1872
While climbing the first bluff near the entrance to the canyon, the bell-horse of a pack-train was heard ahead.
The Rev'd George M. Grant, Ocean to Ocean, (Sandford Fleming's Expedition through Canada in 1872) ,Toronto and London, 1873, p. 276.
PLACE: Rocky Mountains, Canada.
TIME: 1872
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