. Ox-team days on the Oregon Trail /by Ezra Meeker ; revised and edited by Howard R. Driggs. no trouble in starting offthe next morning. After that, never a word with theleast semblance of contention to it passed between Buckand me. Scanning McAuleys outfit in the morning, I was quitetroubled to start out with him. His teams, principallycows, were light, and they were thin in flesh; his wagonswere apparently light and as frail as the teams. But Isoon found that his outfit, hke ours, carried no extraweight, and he knew how to care for a team. He was,besides, an obliging neighbor, which was full
. Ox-team days on the Oregon Trail /by Ezra Meeker ; revised and edited by Howard R. Driggs. no trouble in starting offthe next morning. After that, never a word with theleast semblance of contention to it passed between Buckand me. Scanning McAuleys outfit in the morning, I was quitetroubled to start out with him. His teams, principallycows, were light, and they were thin in flesh; his wagonswere apparently light and as frail as the teams. But Isoon found that his outfit, hke ours, carried no extraweight, and he knew how to care for a team. He was,besides, an obliging neighbor, which was fully demon-strated on many trying occasions, as we traveled incompany for more than a thousand miles, until his roadto California parted from ours at the big bend of theBear River. Of the trip through Iowa fittle remains to be said furtherthan that the grass was thin and washy, the roads muddyand slippery, and the weather execrable, although Mayhad been ushered in long before we reached the HttleMormon town of Kanesville (now Council Bluffs), a few Taking the Trail for Oregon 25 .^p^ AV m f. miles above the place where we were to cross the MissouriRiver. Here my brother Oliver joined us, having comefrom Indianapolis withold-time comrades andfriends. Now, with theMcAuleys and Oliversparty, we mustered a trainof five wagons. It was here at Kanesvillethat the last purchaseswere made, the last lettersent back to anxiousfriends. Once across theMissouri and headed west-ward, we should have to ^rW^^ - cross the Rocky Moun- *^tains to find a town A yoke of oxen,again. We had now come to the beginning of the second stageof our long journey. We had reached the Missouri the western bank of the river we should strike outacross the Plains, through what is now Nebraska andWyoming, to the crest of the continent. We should followthe ox-team trail along the north bank of the Platte, andthen up the north fork of the Platte to the first we must get across the Missouri. What
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