The ox team : or, The old Oregon trail, 1852-1906 . fe. THE OLD OREGON TRAIL 179 CHAPTER XXI. The Ox Team Monument ExpeditionContinued. w HAT shall I do? Abandon the work? 1 can not go on with one ox and cannot in all this country find another, and I cannot lay here. And so a horse team was hired totake us to the next town, Gothenburg—thirteenmiles distant, and the lone ox led behind thewagon. GOTHENBURG, NEBRASKA. Gothenburg, Nebraska, August 10, 1906,Camp No. 121, odometer 1,549. The people hereresolved to erect a monument, appointed a com-mittee, and some fifteen dollars contribution
The ox team : or, The old Oregon trail, 1852-1906 . fe. THE OLD OREGON TRAIL 179 CHAPTER XXI. The Ox Team Monument ExpeditionContinued. w HAT shall I do? Abandon the work? 1 can not go on with one ox and cannot in all this country find another, and I cannot lay here. And so a horse team was hired totake us to the next town, Gothenburg—thirteenmiles distant, and the lone ox led behind thewagon. GOTHENBURG, NEBRASKA. Gothenburg, Nebraska, August 10, 1906,Camp No. 121, odometer 1,549. The people hereresolved to erect a monument, appointed a com-mittee, and some fifteen dollars contribution wassecured. LEXINGTON. Again hired a horse team to haul the wagonto Lexington. At Lexington I thought to re-pair the loss of the ox by buying a pair of heavycows and breaking them into work, and sopurchased two out of a band of 200 cattle near 180 THE OX TEAM OK by. Why, yes, of course they will work, I said,wheD a bystander had aslied the question. Why,I have seen whole teams of cows on the Plains in52, and they would trip along so merrily one. BREAKING THE COWS. would be tempted to turn the oxen out and getCOWS. Yes, we will soon have a team/ I said,only we cant go very far in a day with a rawteam, especially in this hot weather. But oneot ihe cows would nt go at all; we could not lead THE OLD OREGON TRAIL 181 or drive her. Put her in the yoke and she wouldstand stock still just like a stubborn mule. Hitchthe yoke by a strong rope behind the wagon witha horse team to pull, she would brace her feetand actually slide along, but would nt lift a never saw such a brute before, and hope I neverwill again. 1 have broken wild, fighting, kick-ing steers to the yoke and enjoyed the sport, butfrom a sullen tame cow deliver me. Wont you take her back and give me an-other? I asked. Yes, I will give you that redcow (one 1 had rejected as unfit), but not one ofthe others. Then what is this cow worth toyou? Back came the response, Thirty dol-lars, and so I dropped ten dollars (havi
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