The ox team : or, The old Oregon trail, 1852-1906 . pecial police, posting notices, and nabbing somein the very act. Give me Indians on the Plains to contend with,give me fleas, ah, yes, the detested sage brushticks to burrow in your flesh, but deliver mefrom the degenerates of cheap notoriety seekers. Many good people have thought there wassome organization behind this work, or that therehad been government aid secured. To all suchand to those who may read these lines I will quot*^from the issued at the outset: The expense of this expedition to perpetuatethe memory of the old Oregon T
The ox team : or, The old Oregon trail, 1852-1906 . pecial police, posting notices, and nabbing somein the very act. Give me Indians on the Plains to contend with,give me fleas, ah, yes, the detested sage brushticks to burrow in your flesh, but deliver mefrom the degenerates of cheap notoriety seekers. Many good people have thought there wassome organization behind this work, or that therehad been government aid secured. To all suchand to those who may read these lines I will quot*^from the issued at the outset: The expense of this expedition to perpetuatethe memory of the old Oregon Trail, by erectingstone monuments, is borne by myself except suchvoluntary aid as may be given by those taking aninterest in the work, and you are respectfullysolicited to contribute such sum as may beconvenient. To this appeal a generous response has beenmade, as attested by the line of monuments fromPuget Sound to this poin* a brief account ofwhich, with incidents of this trip and of the tripmade by me with an ox and cow team in 1852,will <:a THE OLD OREGON TRAIL 85 THE TEAM. The team consists of one seven-year-old ox,Twist, and one unbroken range four-year-oldsteer, Dave. When we were ready to start. Twistweighed 1,470 and Dave 1,560 pounds, respect-ively. This order of weight was soon three months time Twist gained 130 and Davelost 10 pounds. All this time I fed with a lavishhand all the rolled barley I dare and all the haythey would eat. During that time thirty-threedays lapsed in which we did not travel, beingengaged either arranging for the erection or dedi-cation of monuments. TEAM OF 1852 My team of 1852 consisted of two unbrokensteers ^ind two cows. The cows I had to give upto save the life of the oxen during the deep snowthat fell in the winter of 1852-53. The oxenhauled our belongings over to the head of PugetSound in July, 1853, and I there parted v/iththem. Of that parting I quote from my workPioneer Reminiscences of Puget Sound: What I am no
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