. Ox-team days on the Oregon Trail /by Ezra Meeker ; revised and edited by Howard R. Driggs. ka Territory, was still beyond the frontier. 20 Ox-Team Days on IIle Oregon Trail rich soil, and the wealth of lumber. The Oregon Countryof that day included the present states of Oregon andWashington, and parts of Idaho and Wyoming, It was a special consideration for us that if we went toOregon the government would give us three hundred andtwenty acres of land, whereas in Iowa we should have topurchase it. The price would be low, to be sure, but theland must be bought and paid for on the spot. There w
. Ox-team days on the Oregon Trail /by Ezra Meeker ; revised and edited by Howard R. Driggs. ka Territory, was still beyond the frontier. 20 Ox-Team Days on IIle Oregon Trail rich soil, and the wealth of lumber. The Oregon Countryof that day included the present states of Oregon andWashington, and parts of Idaho and Wyoming, It was a special consideration for us that if we went toOregon the government would give us three hundred andtwenty acres of land, whereas in Iowa we should have topurchase it. The price would be low, to be sure, but theland must be bought and paid for on the spot. There wereno preemption laws or beneficial homestead laws in forcethen, nor did they come until many years later. But what about going to Oregon when springtime came?An event was pending that rendered a positive decisionimpossible for the moment. It was not until the firstweek of April, 1852, when our first-born baby boy wasa month old, that we could say we were going to Oregonin 1852. It would be a long, hard journey for such a littlefellow, but as it turned out, he stood it like a young
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