. Ox-team days on the Oregon Trail /by Ezra Meeker ; revised and edited by Howard R. Driggs. that stream emptiesinto Bear River. It is also at the western end of theSublette Cut-off Trail from Bear River to Big SandyCreek, the cut-off that we had taken in 1852. The people of the locality resolved to have a monumentat this fork in the old trail, and arrangements were made toerect one out of stone from a local quarry. This goodbeginning made in the state, we went on, climbing firstover the rim of the Great Basin, then up and across theRockies. I quote again from my journal: Pacific Springs,Wyomi
. Ox-team days on the Oregon Trail /by Ezra Meeker ; revised and edited by Howard R. Driggs. that stream emptiesinto Bear River. It is also at the western end of theSublette Cut-off Trail from Bear River to Big SandyCreek, the cut-off that we had taken in 1852. The people of the locality resolved to have a monumentat this fork in the old trail, and arrangements were made toerect one out of stone from a local quarry. This goodbeginning made in the state, we went on, climbing firstover the rim of the Great Basin, then up and across theRockies. I quote again from my journal: Pacific Springs,Wyoming, Camp No. 79, June 20, 1906. Odometer, 958.[Miles registered from The Dalles, Oregon,] Arrived at6 , and camped near Halters store and the postoffice. Ice found in camp during the night. On June 22 we were still camped at Pacific had searched for a suitable stone for a monument to beplaced on the summit of the range, and, after almostdespauing of finding one, had come upon exactly whatwas wanted. The stone lay alone on the mountain side; Trailing on to the South Pass 193. Wyoming oil wells. Chas. S. Hill it is granite, I think, but mixed with quartz, and is amonument hewed by the hand of Nature. Immediately after dinner we hitched the oxen to wagon. With the help of four men we loadedthe stone, after having dragged it on the ground andover the rocks a hundred yards or so down the mountainside. We estimated its weight at a thousand pounds. There being no stonecutter at Pacific Springs to inscribethe monument, the clerk at the store formed the letters onstiff pasteboard. He then cut them out to make a paperstencil, through which the shape of the letters was trans-ferred to the stone by crayon marks. The letters werethen cut out with a cold chisel, deep enough to make apermanent inscription. The stone was so hard that itrequired steady work all day to cut the twenty letters andfigures: THE OREGON TRAIL, 1843-57. We drove out of Pacific Springs at a litt
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