Book/Printed Material The ox team; or, The old Oregon trail, 1852-1906; an account of the author's trip across the plains, from the Missouri River to Puget Sound, at the age of twenty-two, with an ox and cow team in 1852, and of his return with an ox team in the year 1906, at the age of seventy-six.
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Image 6 of The ox team; or, The old Oregon trail, 1852-1906; an account of the ...- Contributor: Meeker, Ezra
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Image 7 of The ox team; or, The old Oregon trail, 1852-1906; an account of the ... THE* FOURTH *£wrto 7 TxTeam WOregpnirail 1552- 1906. ^EG ^lONUMENTL. EDITION. y BY EZRA MEEKER.- Contributor: Meeker, Ezra
- Date: 1907
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Image 8 of The ox team; or, The old Oregon trail, 1852-1906; an account of the ... r-- Contributor: Meeker, Ezra
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Image 9 of The ox team; or, The old Oregon trail, 1852-1906; an account of the ... [Fourth Edition] THE OX TEAM OR THE Old Oregon Trail 1852-1906 An Account of the Author s Trip Across the Plains, from the Missouri River to Puget Sound, at the Age of...- Contributor: Meeker, Ezra
- Date: 1907
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Image 10 of The ox team; or, The old Oregon trail, 1852-1906; an account of the ... ..M52.I Copyright, 1907, by EZRA MEEKER All Rights Reserved Published, October, 1906 Reprinted, January, 1907 Reprinted, June, 1907 Reprinted, September, 1907- Contributor: Meeker, Ezra
- Date: 1907
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Image 11 of The ox team; or, The old Oregon trail, 1852-1906; an account of the ... DEDICATION. To the Pioneers who fought the battle of peace, and wrested Oregon from British rule, this book is reverently dedicated.- Contributor: Meeker, Ezra
- Date: 1907
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Image 12 of The ox team; or, The old Oregon trail, 1852-1906; an account of the ...- Contributor: Meeker, Ezra
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Image 13 of The ox team; or, The old Oregon trail, 1852-1906; an account of the ... LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Frontispiece. Dedicating Monument at Tenino, Washington 16 Granite Monument at Baker City, Oregon 38 On the Dock, Tacoma, Washington 48 Twist and Dave 84 Camp No. 1 88 Team...- Contributor: Meeker, Ezra
- Date: 1907
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Image 14 of The ox team; or, The old Oregon trail, 1852-1906; an account of the ...- Contributor: Meeker, Ezra
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Image 15 of The ox team; or, The old Oregon trail, 1852-1906; an account of the ... CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. From Indiana to Iowa. Early Days In Indiana The Brimstone Meeting-house I m Going to be a Farmer Off for Iowa An Iowa Winter. 13 CHAPTER II. Off for...- Contributor: Meeker, Ezra
- Date: 1907
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Image 16 of The ox team; or, The old Oregon trail, 1852-1906; an account of the ... g CONTENTS. CHAPTER XII. Floating Down the River 97 CHAPTER XIII. The Ox Team Monume.nt Expedition Continued. The Dalles, Oregon Out from the Dalles Pendleton, Ore- gon The Blue Mountains Meacham, Oregon...- Contributor: Meeker, Ezra
- Date: 1907
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Image 17 of The ox team; or, The old Oregon trail, 1852-1906; an account of the ... THE OX TEAM OR THE OLD OREGON TRAIL i 852- 1 906- Contributor: Meeker, Ezra
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Image 18 of The ox team; or, The old Oregon trail, 1852-1906; an account of the ...- Contributor: Meeker, Ezra
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Image 19 of The ox team; or, The old Oregon trail, 1852-1906; an account of the ... INTRODUCTION TO AN INTRODUCTION. I had not, until the last moment, intended to write an introduction, unless my readers ac- cepted the writing of early Indiana life as such. Introductions so often...- Contributor: Meeker, Ezra
- Date: 1907
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Image 20 of The ox team; or, The old Oregon trail, 1852-1906; an account of the ...- Contributor: Meeker, Ezra
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Image 21 of The ox team; or, The old Oregon trail, 1852-1906; an account of the ... I CHAPTEB I. From Indiana to Iowa. EARLY DAYS IN INDIANA. N THE early 50s, out four and a half and seven miles respectively from Indianapolis, Indiana, there lived two young people...- Contributor: Meeker, Ezra
- Date: 1907
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Image 22 of The ox team; or, The old Oregon trail, 1852-1906; an account of the ... 14 THE OX TEAM OR or butter or perhaps a half dozen pairs of socks or maybe a few yards of cloth, as well as some grain, or hay or a bit...- Contributor: Meeker, Ezra
- Date: 1907
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Image 23 of The ox team; or, The old Oregon trail, 1852-1906; an account of the ... THE OLD OREGON TRAIL 15 if they had seen the whole world? Had they not experienced the joys of the sugar camp while stirring off the lively creeping maple sugar? Both had...- Contributor: Meeker, Ezra
- Date: 1907
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Image 24 of The ox team; or, The old Oregon trail, 1852-1906; an account of the ...- Contributor: Meeker, Ezra
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Image 25 of The ox team; or, The old Oregon trail, 1852-1906; an account of the ... THE OLD OREGON TRAIL 17 on pap s farm. Nor in the old cabin, nor any cabin unless it s our own, came the response, and so the resolution was made that...- Contributor: Meeker, Ezra
- Date: 1907
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Image 26 of The ox team; or, The old Oregon trail, 1852-1906; an account of the ... 18 THE OX TEAM OE Why, mother, we are only going out to Iowa, you know, where we can get a home that shall be our own; it s not so very...- Contributor: Meeker, Ezra
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Image 27 of The ox team; or, The old Oregon trail, 1852-1906; an account of the ... THE OLD OREGON TRAIL 19 and above all we had each other and were su- premely happy, and rich in our anticipations. At that time but one railroad entered Indian- apolis it...- Contributor: Meeker, Ezra
- Date: 1907
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Image 28 of The ox team; or, The old Oregon trail, 1852-1906; an account of the ... 20 THE OX TEAM OR the state, a little way north of Kanesville (now Council Bluffs), as cook of the party, which po- sition was speedily changed and that of flagman assigned...- Contributor: Meeker, Ezra
- Date: 1907
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Image 29 of The ox team; or, The old Oregon trail, 1852-1906; an account of the ... THE OLD OREGON TRAIL 21 ceeded in arousing him to anger and gotten him off the mare. I vowed then and there I did not like the Iowa climate, and the Oregon...- Contributor: Meeker, Ezra
- Date: 1907
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Image 30 of The ox team; or, The old Oregon trail, 1852-1906; an account of the ... 22 THE OX TEAM OB CHAPTEE II. Off for Oregon. HAVE been asked hundreds of times how many wagons were in the train I traveled i with, and what train it was,...- Contributor: Meeker, Ezra
- Date: 1907
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Image 31 of The ox team; or, The old Oregon trail, 1852-1906; an account of the ... THE OLD OREGON TRAIL 23 men. No lazy bone occupied a place in Buck s body. He was so scrupulously neat and cleanly that some might say he was fastidious, but such...- Contributor: Meeker, Ezra
- Date: 1907
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Image 32 of The ox team; or, The old Oregon trail, 1852-1906; an account of the ... 24 THE OX TEAM OR make and dry, and we had light bread all the way, baked in a tin reflector instead of the heavy Dutch ovens so much in use on...- Contributor: Meeker, Ezra
- Date: 1907
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Image 33 of The ox team; or, The old Oregon trail, 1852-1906; an account of the ... THE OLD OREGON TRAIL 25 fat bacon for meat till the buffalo supplied a change, and no doubt but much of the sickness attributed to the cholera was caused by an ill-...- Contributor: Meeker, Ezra
- Date: 1907
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Image 34 of The ox team; or, The old Oregon trail, 1852-1906; an account of the ... 26 THE OX TEAM OB lunched and rested. I made it a rule, no matter how short the noon time, to unyoke and let the cattle rest or eat while we rested...- Contributor: Meeker, Ezra
- Date: 1907
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Image 35 of The ox team; or, The old Oregon trail, 1852-1906; an account of the ... THE OLD OREGON TRAIL 27 teams being light, principally cows, and thin in flesh, with wagons apparently light and as frail as the teams. But I soon found that his outfit, like...- Contributor: Meeker, Ezra
- Date: 1907
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Image 36 of The ox team; or, The old Oregon trail, 1852-1906; an account of the ... 28 THE OX TEAM OB CHAPTER III. Crossing the Missouri. WHAT on earth is that? exclaimed Mar- garet McAuley as we approached the ferry landing a few miles below where Omaha now...- Contributor: Meeker, Ezra
- Date: 1907
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Image 37 of The ox team; or, The old Oregon trail, 1852-1906; an account of the ... THE OLD OREGON TRAIL 29 locked, completely blocking the approach to the landing by new arrivals, whether in companies or single. All ronnd abont were camps of all kinds, from those without...- Contributor: Meeker, Ezra
- Date: 1907
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Image 38 of The ox team; or, The old Oregon trail, 1852-1906; an account of the ... 30 THE OX TEAM OR looked upon as a leader, as was the case later. The sister Margaret, a most determined maiden lady, the oldest of the party and as resolute and...- Contributor: Meeker, Ezra
- Date: 1907
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Image 39 of The ox team; or, The old Oregon trail, 1852-1906; an account of the ... THE OLD OREGON TRAIL 31 over, and we were besieged with applications from detained emigrants. Finally, the word coming to the ears of the ferrymen, they were foolish enough to undertake to...- Contributor: Meeker, Ezra
- Date: 1907
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Image 40 of The ox team; or, The old Oregon trail, 1852-1906; an account of the ... 32 THE OX TEAM OE A CHAPTER IV. Out on the Plains. THE INDIANS. S SOON as a part of our outfits were landed on the right bank of the river our...- Contributor: Meeker, Ezra
- Date: 1907