. Ox-team days on the Oregon Trail /by Ezra Meeker ; revised and edited by Howard R. Driggs. evertheless, I have no regrets to express or exultationto proclaim. The trail has not yet been fully or properlymarked. We have made a good beginning, however, andlet us hope the end will soon become an accomphshed the old Oregon Trail means more than themere preservation in memory of that great highway; itmeans the building up of loyalty, of patriotism, as well asthe teaching of our history in a form never to be for-gotten. Words can not express my deep feeling of gratitude forthe roy
. Ox-team days on the Oregon Trail /by Ezra Meeker ; revised and edited by Howard R. Driggs. evertheless, I have no regrets to express or exultationto proclaim. The trail has not yet been fully or properlymarked. We have made a good beginning, however, andlet us hope the end will soon become an accomphshed the old Oregon Trail means more than themere preservation in memory of that great highway; itmeans the building up of loyalty, of patriotism, as well asthe teaching of our history in a form never to be for-gotten. Words can not express my deep feeling of gratitude forthe royal welcome given me by the citizens of Portland. Iwas privileged to attend the reunion of the two thousandpioneers who had just assembled for their annual meeting. The drive from Portland to Seattle is also one long to beremembered; my friends and neighbors met me with kind-liest welcome. On the eighteenth day of July, 1908,1 droveinto the city of Seattle and the long journey was dream of retracing the way over the Old Trail hadcome true. PIONEER LIFE SERIES THE WHITE INDIAN BOY. ^iv// V -_. ?.,•• .,^.,,,,--iff OR UNCLE NICK AMONG THE SHOSHONES Everybody that knew Uncle Nick Wilson was always begging himto tell about the pioneer days in the Northwest. When he was eightyears old the Wilson family crossed the plains by ox-team. He wasonly twelve when he slipped away from home to travel north witha band of Shoshones, with whom he wandered about for two years,sharing all the experiences of Indian life. Later, after he had re-turned home, he was a pony express rider, he drove a stage on theOverland route, and he acted as guide in an expedition against theGosiute Indians. A few years ago Uncle Nick was persuaded to write down his recol-lections, and Professor Howard N. Driggs helped him to make hisaccount into a book that is a true record of pioneer life, with itshardships and adventures. The White Indian Boy is illustrated with many instructive photo-graphs and with dra
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