. Ox-team days on the Oregon Trail /by Ezra Meeker ; revised and edited by Howard R. Driggs. ,and am writing this by our first really out-of-doors campfire, under the spreading boughs of a friendly pine estimate we have diiven twelve miles; started from theschool at 7 The first three or four miles over a beau-tiful farming country; then we began climbing the foot-hills, up, up, up, four miles, reaching first snow at threeoclock. True to promise, the mountaineers team met us on theway to Meacham, but not till we had reached the were axle-deep in it and had the shovel in use
. Ox-team days on the Oregon Trail /by Ezra Meeker ; revised and edited by Howard R. Driggs. ,and am writing this by our first really out-of-doors campfire, under the spreading boughs of a friendly pine estimate we have diiven twelve miles; started from theschool at 7 The first three or four miles over a beau-tiful farming country; then we began climbing the foot-hills, up, up, up, four miles, reaching first snow at threeoclock. True to promise, the mountaineers team met us on theway to Meacham, but not till we had reached the were axle-deep in it and had the shovel in use to clearthe way, when Burns came upon us. By night we were On the Overland Trail Again 183 safely encamped atMeacham, with thecheering news thatthe monument hadarrived and could bededicated the nextday. The summit of themountain had notbeen reached, and theworst tug lay aheadof us. But castingthoughts of this frommind, all hands turnedto the monument,which by elevenoclock was in and Dave stoodnear it, hitched up,and ready for the startas soon as the orderwas given. Everybody. \ monument to the old trail, on thehigh school grounds at Baker City,Oregon. in town was there, the little school coming in a the speech we moved on to battle with the snow, andfinally won our way over the summit. The sunshine that was let into our hearts at La Grandewas also refreshing. Yes, we will have a monument, thepeople responded. And they got one, too, dedicating itwhile I tarried. We had taken with us an inscribed stone to set upat an intersection near the mouth of Ladds Canyon, eightmiles out of La Grande. The school near by came in a children sang Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean,after which I talked to the assemblage for a few moments, 184 Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail and the exercises closed with all singing America. Eachchild brought a stone and cast it upon the pile surroundingthe base of the monument. The citizens of Baker City lent a willing car to the su
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