. Ox-team days on the Oregon Trail /by Ezra Meeker ; revised and edited by Howard R. Driggs. ust reach that place or he out in the snow. So a veryearly start was made before daybreak, while the wind good woman of the cabin baked us some biscuits fora noon lunch, but they were frozen solid in our pocketsbefore we had been out two hours. The wind rose withthe sun, and with the sun two bright sun dogs — a beauti-ful sight to behold, but arising from conditions intolerableto bear. Vance came near freezing to death, and wouldhave done so had I not succeeded in arousing him toanger and getti
. Ox-team days on the Oregon Trail /by Ezra Meeker ; revised and edited by Howard R. Driggs. ust reach that place or he out in the snow. So a veryearly start was made before daybreak, while the wind good woman of the cabin baked us some biscuits fora noon lunch, but they were frozen solid in our pocketsbefore we had been out two hours. The wind rose withthe sun, and with the sun two bright sun dogs — a beauti-ful sight to behold, but arising from conditions intolerableto bear. Vance came near freezing to death, and wouldhave done so had I not succeeded in arousing him toanger and getting him off the mare. I vowed then and there that I did not like the IowacHmate, and the Oregon fever that had already seized mewas heightened. The settlement of the northern boundaryby treaty in 1846 had ended the dispute between the UnitedStates and Great Britain for ownership of the regionnorth of the Columbia. As a consequence, Americansettlers were beginning to cross the Columbia in numbers,and stories were coming back of the wonderful climate, the Leaving the Home Nest for Iowa 19. By 1850 the general divisions of the continent had taken the shapethat they have today. The states of Texas and California and theterritories of Utah and New Mexico had been added to the UnitedStates, all as a result of the war with Mexico. The dispute withGreat Britain over the Oregon Country had been settled by a com-promise. The region just west of the Missouri, known as the Ne-braska 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 preem
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