. Ox-team days on the Oregon Trail /by Ezra Meeker ; revised and edited by Howard R. Driggs. swere made, the last lettersent back to anxiousfriends. Once across theMissouri and headed west-ward, we should have to ^rW^^ - cross the Rocky Moun- *^tains to find a town A yoke of oxen,again. We had now come to the beginning of the second stageof our long journey. We had reached the Missouri the western bank of the river we should strike outacross the Plains, through what is now Nebraska andWyoming, to the crest of the continent. We should followthe ox-team trail along the north bank of t
. Ox-team days on the Oregon Trail /by Ezra Meeker ; revised and edited by Howard R. Driggs. swere made, the last lettersent back to anxiousfriends. Once across theMissouri and headed west-ward, we should have to ^rW^^ - cross the Rocky Moun- *^tains to find a town A yoke of oxen,again. We had now come to the beginning of the second stageof our long journey. We had reached the Missouri the western bank of the river we should strike outacross the Plains, through what is now Nebraska andWyoming, to the crest of the continent. We should followthe ox-team trail along the north bank of the Platte, andthen up the north fork of the Platte to the first we must get across the Missouri. What on earth is that? exclaimed one of the women,as we approached the landing for the ferry which crossedthe river to a point a few miles below where Omaha nowstands. It looks for all the world like a big white flatiron,answered another. We drivers had little time for looking and for makingcomparisons. All our attention had to be given to our 26 Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail. On this page and the following are shown the main trails thatstretched across the continent, west of the Missouri, in the yearsbefore the buUding of railroads. The Oregon Trail from KanesvUleto Portland is marked with the heaviest line. The lighter line fromHuntsville to Kanesville shows Ezra Meekers early travels; thismarks not a trail but a main-traveled road. People starting out fromSt. Louis for the Oregon Country went by way of the Santa Fe Trail Taking the Trail for Oregon 27
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