. Ox-team days on the Oregon Trail /by Ezra Meeker ; revised and edited by Howard R. Driggs. settlers about ourneighborhood lived in peace, on the whole. To anyonewho treated them fairly, the Indians became loyal friends. Mowich Man, an Indian whom I was to know duringmany years, was one of our neighbors. He frequently 140 Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail passed our cabin with his canoe and people. He was agreat hunter, a crack shot, and an all-round Indian of goodparts. Many is the saddle of venison that he brought mein the course of years. Other pioneers likewise had specialfriends among the
. Ox-team days on the Oregon Trail /by Ezra Meeker ; revised and edited by Howard R. Driggs. settlers about ourneighborhood lived in peace, on the whole. To anyonewho treated them fairly, the Indians became loyal friends. Mowich Man, an Indian whom I was to know duringmany years, was one of our neighbors. He frequently 140 Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail passed our cabin with his canoe and people. He was agreat hunter, a crack shot, and an all-round Indian of goodparts. Many is the saddle of venison that he brought mein the course of years. Other pioneers likewise had specialfriends among the Indians. Some of Mowich Mans people were fine singers. Hiscamp, or his canoe if he was traveling, was always thecenter for song and merriment. It is a curious fact thatone seldom can get the Indian music by asking for it, butrather must wait for its spontaneous outburst. Indiansongs in those days came from nearly every nook and cor-ner and seemed to pervade the whole country. We oftencould hear the songs and accompanying stroke of thepaddle long before we saw the floating canoes. .J = ^. Carrying a dairy to the new mining town. CHAPTER NINETEEN THE STAMPEDE FOR THE GOLD DIGGINGS Hardly had we got fairly over the Indian War when an-other wave of excitement broke up our pioneer plans March 21, 1858, the schooner Wild Pigeon arrived atSteilacoom with the news that the Indians had discoveredgold on Fraser River, that they had traded several poundsof the precious metal with the Hudsons Bay Company,and that three hundred people had left Victoria and itsvicinity for the new land of El Dorado. Furthermore, thereport ran, the mines were exceedingly rich. The wave of excitement that went through the littlesettlement upon the receipt of this news was repeated inevery town and hamlet of the whole Pacific Coast. Itcontinued even around the world, summoning adventurousspirits from all civilized countries of the earth. Everybody, women folk and all, wanted to go, and wouldhave start
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