. Ox-team days on the Oregon Trail /by Ezra Meeker ; revised and edited by Howard R. Driggs. eers 171 t^^S ^.?fc ^B^B^^^^^^^Sfl^B^tesi ^i^sli^^^^k^K ^isT^^^ ^SK^r^- ? ^?^#iif^;^-. ^ H^^-^ ^ ife&.i^... «.:;:^«L<tfi §1- Launching the schooner to cross the river. This hub and the bands, boxes, and other iron parts werefrom two old-time wagons that had crossed the Plains in1853. They differed somewhat in size and shape; hencethe hubs of the fore and hind wheels did not match. The axles were of wood, with the old-time linchpins andsteel skeins, which called for the use of tar and the tarbucket i
. Ox-team days on the Oregon Trail /by Ezra Meeker ; revised and edited by Howard R. Driggs. eers 171 t^^S ^.?fc ^B^B^^^^^^^Sfl^B^tesi ^i^sli^^^^k^K ^isT^^^ ^SK^r^- ? ^?^#iif^;^-. ^ H^^-^ ^ ife&.i^... «.:;:^«L<tfi §1- Launching the schooner to cross the river. This hub and the bands, boxes, and other iron parts werefrom two old-time wagons that had crossed the Plains in1853. They differed somewhat in size and shape; hencethe hubs of the fore and hind wheels did not match. The axles were of wood, with the old-time linchpins andsteel skeins, which called for the use of tar and the tarbucket instead of axle grease. Why.^ Because if greasewere used, the spokes would work loose, and soon the wholewheel would collapse. The bed was of the old prairie-schooner style, with the bottom boat-shaped and the ribson the outside. My first camp for the return journey over the old trailwas made in my own dooryard at Puyallup. This wasmaintained for several days to give schooner and team atrial. After the weak points had been strengthened and 172 Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail. Brown Bros. Great changes had taken place along the old trail through Wash-ington and Oregon; here are strawberries growing where the foreststood in 1852. everything pronounced to be in order, I left home for thelong trip. The first drive was to Seattle through the towns ofSumner, Auburn, and Kent. In Seattle I had a host offriends and acquaintances, and I thought that there Icould arouse interest in my plan and secure some aid for came of the effort. My closest friends, on thecontrary, tried to dissuade me from going; and, I may say,actually tried to convince others that it would be an act offriendship not to lend any aid to the enterprise. I knew, orthought I knew, that my strength would warrant under-taking the ordeal; I felt sure I could make the trip success-fully. But my friends remained unconvinced; so afterspending two weeks in Seattle I shipped my outfit bysteamer to Tacoma, only to
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