. Ox-team days on the Oregon Trail /by Ezra Meeker ; revised and edited by Howard R. Driggs. This is the region in which Ezra Meeker settled in 1852, when it wasall known as the Oregon Country and had not been divided intoWashington and Oregon. The journey from Portland to Kalama,where the first cabin was built, is shown by Une 1. The Une marked2 shows the route followed in the journey to explore the Puget Soundregion. The brothers went as far as Port Townsend, but turned backto make the second home at Steilacoom. Line 3 is the trail throughthe Natchess Pass, the trail that Ezra Meeker followe
. Ox-team days on the Oregon Trail /by Ezra Meeker ; revised and edited by Howard R. Driggs. This is the region in which Ezra Meeker settled in 1852, when it wasall known as the Oregon Country and had not been divided intoWashington and Oregon. The journey from Portland to Kalama,where the first cabin was built, is shown by Une 1. The Une marked2 shows the route followed in the journey to explore the Puget Soundregion. The brothers went as far as Port Townsend, but turned backto make the second home at Steilacoom. Line 3 is the trail throughthe Natchess Pass, the trail that Ezra Meeker followed to meet busfathers party coming up through the Blue Looking for work on the good ship Mary Melville. CHAPTER TEN GETTING A NEW START IN THE NEW LAND On the first day of October, 1852, at about nine oclock atnight, with a bright moon shining, we reached met us; he had come ahead by the trail and hadfound a place for us to lodge. I carried my wife, who had fallen ill, in my arms up thesteep bank of the Willamette River and three blocks awayto the lodging house, which was kept by a colored man. Why, suh, I didnt think yuse could do that, yusedont look it, said my colored friend, as I placed mywife on the clean bed in a cozy little room. This was the first house we had been in for five April until October we had been on the a roof had been over our heads other than thewagon cover or tent, and no softer bed had we knownthan the ground or the bottom of the wagon. We had found a little steamer to carry us from theCascades to Portland, along with most of the companythat had floated in the scow down the ri
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