The ox team : or, The old Oregon trail, 1852-1906 . hat by thetime I arrived at The Dalles all the shoes butone were oft the Dave ox, and several lost offTwist, and the remainder loose, and so I wascompelled to have the whole of the work doneover again at The Dalles. This time the work was well done, all the shoesbut one staying on for a distance of GOO miles,when we threw the Dave ox to replace the lostshoe, there being no stocks at hand. The chargeat The Dalles was $10, thus making quitean inroad upon the scant funds for the expedi-tion, 1 felt compelled to have them again shodat Kemmerer, W
The ox team : or, The old Oregon trail, 1852-1906 . hat by thetime I arrived at The Dalles all the shoes butone were oft the Dave ox, and several lost offTwist, and the remainder loose, and so I wascompelled to have the whole of the work doneover again at The Dalles. This time the work was well done, all the shoesbut one staying on for a distance of GOO miles,when we threw the Dave ox to replace the lostshoe, there being no stocks at hand. The chargeat The Dalles was $10, thus making quitean inroad upon the scant funds for the expedi-tion, 1 felt compelled to have them again shodat Kemmerer, Wyoming, 818 miles out from TheDalles, but soon lost several shoes, and finallyat the Pacific Springs had the missing shoes re-placed by inexperienced hands, who did a goodjob, though, for the shoes stayed on until wellworn. On the Plains in 52 but few shod their cows were worked, and light steers, andmost of llie outfits had spare cattle to put intheir teams iu case one became lame or tenderfooted. I knew of several tying cowhide shoes. THE OLD OREGON TRAIL 111 on to protect the foet of their cattle, while withothers it was pitiable to see the suffering, limp-iug, dumlj brutes laboring. OUT FEOM THE DALLES. At 3:30 on iMarch 11 we drove out fromThe Dalles. I have ahvays felt that here \\iks thereal starting- point, as from here there could beno more shipping, l)ut all driving. By rail it is1,734 miles from The Dalles to Omaha, Avhereour ANOik on the old Trail ends. By wagon roadthe distance is some greater, but not much, prob-ably 1,800 miles. The load was heavy as well asthe roads. With a team untrained to the road,and one ox unbroken, and no experienced oxdriver, and the grades heavy, small wonder if afeeling of depression crept over me. On somelong hills we could move up but one or twolengths of the wagon at a time, and on level roadswith the h^ast warm sun the unbroken ox wouldpoke out his tongue. He was like the ydungsprig just out of school, with muscles
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