. Ox-team days on the Oregon Trail /by Ezra Meeker ; revised and edited by Howard R. Driggs. Preparing to cross a river; unyoking the oxen. Dave would hook and kick and perform every othermean trick. Besides, he would stick his tongue out from thesmallest kind of exertion. He had just been shipped in offthe Montana cattle range and had never had a rope on him,unless it was when he was branded. Like a great over-grown booby of a boy, he was flabby in flesh, and he couldnot endure any sort of exertion without discomfort. Atone time I became very nearly discouraged with him. Yet this was the ox t
. Ox-team days on the Oregon Trail /by Ezra Meeker ; revised and edited by Howard R. Driggs. Preparing to cross a river; unyoking the oxen. Dave would hook and kick and perform every othermean trick. Besides, he would stick his tongue out from thesmallest kind of exertion. He had just been shipped in offthe Montana cattle range and had never had a rope on him,unless it was when he was branded. Like a great over-grown booby of a boy, he was flabby in flesh, and he couldnot endure any sort of exertion without discomfort. Atone time I became very nearly discouraged with him. Yet this was the ox that made the round trip. He borehis end of the yoke from the tidewaters of the Pacific tothe tidewaters of the Atlantic, at the Battery, New YorkCity, and on to Washington City to meet the finally became subdued, though not conquered. Attimes he became threatening with his horns, and I neverdid trust his heels. A Plan for a Memorial to the Pioneers 169. Taking off the wagon box. The other ox, Twist, died suddenly on August 9, 1906,and was buried within a few rods of the trail. It was twomonths to a day after his death before I could find a matefor the Dave ox, and then I had to take another five-year-old steer off the cattle range of Nebraska. This steer,Dandy, evidently had never been handled; but he came ofgood stock and, with the exception of awkwco-dness, gaveme no serious trouble. Dandy was purchased out of thestockyard at Omaha. He then weighed 1,470 pounds, andthe day before he went to see the President he tipped thescales at the 1,760-pound notch. Dandy proved to be afaithful, serviceable ox. On the journey Dave had to be shod fourteen times, Ithink, and he always struggled to get away. Once, on thesummit of the Rocky Mountains, we had to throw Dave 170 Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail k >^^M^ K Hlia J *^^u ^ * > a ??•• f _ 1 i^^^l ^jj^ ??^^^^^^^H^^^^ ^.•^^^?pi^^^^^^^^l^H 1 mm Calking the wagon box to tu
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