. Ox-team days on the Oregon Trail /by Ezra Meeker ; revised and edited by Howard R. Driggs. 42 Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail made brought an added touch of sadness. The graves ofprevious years had disappeared, leveled by the storms ofwind or rain, by the hoofs of the stock, or possibly byravages of the hungry wolf. Many believed that theIndians had robbed the graves for the clothing on thebodies. Whatever the cause, all, or nearly all, graves ofprevious years were lost, and we knew that the last restingplaces of those that we might leave behind would alsobe lost by the next year. One of th
. Ox-team days on the Oregon Trail /by Ezra Meeker ; revised and edited by Howard R. Driggs. 42 Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail made brought an added touch of sadness. The graves ofprevious years had disappeared, leveled by the storms ofwind or rain, by the hoofs of the stock, or possibly byravages of the hungry wolf. Many believed that theIndians had robbed the graves for the clothing on thebodies. Whatever the cause, all, or nearly all, graves ofprevious years were lost, and we knew that the last restingplaces of those that we might leave behind would alsobe lost by the next year. One of the incidents that made a profound impressionupon the minds of all was the meeting with eleven wagonsreturning, and not a man left in the entire train. All themen had died and had been buried on the way, and thewomen and children were returning to their homes alonefrom a point well up on the Platte, below Fort difficulties of the return trip were multiplied onaccount of the throng moving westward. How thosewomen succeeded in their attempt, or what became ofthem, we never
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