. Ox-team days on the Oregon Trail /by Ezra Meeker ; revised and edited by Howard R. Driggs. The travel-worn wanderers sing Home, Sweet Home. CHAPTER NINE REACHING THE END OF THE TRAIL After leaving the Snake River we had one of the worststretches of the trying journey. From the lower crossingof the Snake River at old Fort Boise to The Dalles isapproximately three hundred and fifty miles over moun-tains and deserts. It became a serious question with manytravelers whether there would be enough provisions leftto keep them from starvation and whether their teamscould muster strength to take the w
. Ox-team days on the Oregon Trail /by Ezra Meeker ; revised and edited by Howard R. Driggs. The travel-worn wanderers sing Home, Sweet Home. CHAPTER NINE REACHING THE END OF THE TRAIL After leaving the Snake River we had one of the worststretches of the trying journey. From the lower crossingof the Snake River at old Fort Boise to The Dalles isapproximately three hundred and fifty miles over moun-tains and deserts. It became a serious question with manytravelers whether there would be enough provisions leftto keep them from starvation and whether their teamscould muster strength to take the wagons in. Manywagons were left by the wayside. Everything that couldpossibly be spared shared the same fate. Provisions, andprovisions only, were religiously cared for. Consideringthe weakened condition of both man and beast, it wassmall wonder that some ill-advised persons should taketo the river in their wagon beds, many thus going to theirdeath. The dust got deeper every day. Going through it waslike wading in water as to resistance. Often it would liein the road fully six inches deep
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