. Ox-team days on the Oregon Trail /by Ezra Meeker ; revised and edited by Howard R. Driggs. Pioneers on the march. CHAPTER SIX THE PIONEER ARMY OF THE PLAINS During the ox-team days a mighty army of pioneerswent West. In the year that we crossed (1852), when themigration was at its height, this army made an unbrokencolumn fully five hundred miles long. We knew by theinscribed dates found on Independence Rock and elsewherethat there were wagons three hundred miles ahead of us,and the throng continued crossing the river for more thana month after we had crossed it. How many people this army com
. Ox-team days on the Oregon Trail /by Ezra Meeker ; revised and edited by Howard R. Driggs. Pioneers on the march. CHAPTER SIX THE PIONEER ARMY OF THE PLAINS During the ox-team days a mighty army of pioneerswent West. In the year that we crossed (1852), when themigration was at its height, this army made an unbrokencolumn fully five hundred miles long. We knew by theinscribed dates found on Independence Rock and elsewherethat there were wagons three hundred miles ahead of us,and the throng continued crossing the river for more thana month after we had crossed it. How many people this army comprised cannot beknown; the roll was never called. History has no recordof a greater number of emigrants ever making so long ajourney as did these pioneers. There must have beenthree hundred and fifty thousand in the years of the greatrush overland, from 1843 to 1857. Careful estimates ofthe total migration westward from 1843 to 1869, when thefirst railroad across the continent was completed, makethe number nearly half a million. The animals driven over the Plains during these years 38 Th
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