The Mule Underground

08/17/2025

The PERFECT WADE: Short & light with BROWN'S BLACK MESA lifetime tree, in store at www.mule underground.com

08/17/2025

A Wade with Len's Mule bars that doesn't break the bank & weighs 24 lbs.

08/17/2025

Farrel, a Texas Mule man ordered a unique DAY'S WORK saddle. Do you like it? See more, check the store at www.themuleunderground.com

08/09/2025

Every Mule & Rider should Feel FANTASTIC made on Len Brown's Mule Bars!

Innovation by Len Brown the heart and soul of mule riders and enthusiasts the heart and soul of mule riders and enthusiasts Mules are special. They've got a personality that's a bit different from your average horse. They're loyal, sturdy, and have a knack for getting you through the toughest of ter...

05/27/2025

My Cool open-top ProTecTOR Pad is now Care-free with a Felt Liner Lower & the CROC Armor upper. Saddle Fleece catches the Grain & it stays put. With the same layers of felt,balance shims, W/Leathers, & tough CROC upper, this is the BEST Pad I've made since 1984. Len Brown www.themuleunderground.com

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05/26/2025

A little mid week humor.

05/20/2025

Thank you Meredith, Len Brown

05/20/2025

A man & his beloved Donkey, what a story!

So many Texas characters and so little time to write about them. This is Arizona Bill on his b***o "Tipperary," shortly before Arizona Bill died in 1940 at the age of 94. Bill, whose real name was Raymond Hatfield Gardner, spent the last six years of his life in San Antonio. His life is like something out of a movie. Among other things, he was a scout for General U.S. Grant during the Civil War as well as a scout for General Custer. He also performed in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show for awhile. When he died at Fort Sam Houston in 1940 he was buried in an unmarked grave because the Army could not locate his records. But because of the efforts of one man, a veteran named George Miller who had met Bill at San Antonio in the 1930s, the VA finally located the old scout's records in dusty archives and, on Veteran's Day, 1976, Bill was reburied with full military honors in the Sam Houston National Cemetery. Incidentally, as Bill neared the end of his life, his greatest concern was for what would happen to Tipperary after he passed on. Military restrictions mandated that Tipperary be removed from Sam Houston but Bill secured a place for him with donkeys in Brackenridge Park. "But he is considered an aristocratic donkey and it costs 10 cents to ride him while it costs only 5 cents to ride the others" wrote Thomas J. Jenkins in a "Frontier Times" article. When Bill passed through Burnet, Texas, in 1929, the "Burnet Bulletin" newspaper described him as "perhaps the last noted Indian Scout of the old west" and reported that Bill, then 83 years old, camped in the city with Tipperary in order to deliver a lecture to the Boy Scouts.

05/04/2025

This 16" Half Breed Patriot is available NOW. It's on Mule Bars & comes with the Protector Pad + 2 Latigo straps for the western rigging. Get it before someone else does! Len 816 806 4742

04/21/2025

I and a young lady rode 2 horses & packed 3 for 3,000 miles living outdoors for 8 months, no support vehicles, in 1982. I wish I'd had this Elastic Crupper for that trip. I got off at the top of every mountain, over-tightened the britchins. Got of at the bottom & loosened them all. Besides custom fitting every pack saddle & making my own saddle, that work of ON & OFF, was the way all 5 horse's got back no sores & in great shape. Len Brown, Brown's custom tree & saddle. www.themuleunderground.com 816-806-4742

04/01/2025

It doesn't get any Better:The NEVADA WADE 15.5"
Order one for your Mule, www.themuleunderground.com 816 806 4742 Len

01/13/2025

The PEGA DONKEY Saddle. Made for Donkeys and small Mules. 16" shown>25" long.