. Ox-team days on the Oregon Trail /by Ezra Meeker ; revised and edited by Howard R. Driggs. pile. But fate orsomething else was against me, for mining ventures sweptall my gains away slick as a mitten, as the old phrasegoes. I came out over the rotten ice of the Yukon inApril of 1901 to stay, and to vow I never wanted to seeanother mine or visit another mining country. In two weeks after my arrival home my wife and I cele-brated our golden wedding. There was nothing but agolden welcome home, even if I had not returned with mypockets filled with gold. Since I was then past my allotted three sc
. Ox-team days on the Oregon Trail /by Ezra Meeker ; revised and edited by Howard R. Driggs. pile. But fate orsomething else was against me, for mining ventures sweptall my gains away slick as a mitten, as the old phrasegoes. I came out over the rotten ice of the Yukon inApril of 1901 to stay, and to vow I never wanted to seeanother mine or visit another mining country. In two weeks after my arrival home my wife and I cele-brated our golden wedding. There was nothing but agolden welcome home, even if I had not returned with mypockets filled with gold. Since I was then past my allotted three score years andten, it naturally seemed that my ventures were at an for many of these years I had been cherishing a dreamthat I felt must come true to round out my days mostsatisfactorily. I longed to go back over the old OregonTrail and mark it for all time for the children of the pio-neers who blazed it, and for the world. How that dreamwas made to come true is the story to be told in the suc-ceeding part of this book of pioneer stories. PART THREE RETRACING THE OLD OREGON TRAIL. g o c ;^.-S ^ o ^ Si 8 I OTj-H t, c oi J >- ii .£f a^ (1 P to ? _, ^ 3 nj-T- C-H > o «« > ^ c X o-a o «^ t^ja «! 2 bX) be u O CM H c y.« 01 C > « ti ci a^ £ 0)CO o S r S cjC3 ^ c^ 3ja ^--a £ CO o^ ? o 5 > o c
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