. Ox-team days on the Oregon Trail /by Ezra Meeker ; revised and edited by Howard R. Driggs. riggs A sheep herders wagon in the sage-covered hills of Wyoming nearthe Oregon Trail. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE TRAILING ON TO THE SOUTH PASS The Snake River was crossed just below the mouth of theBoise, about where, almost fifty-four years before, we hadmade our second crossing of the river. We were landed on the historic site of old Fort Boise,established by the Hudsons Bay Company in September,1834. This fort was established for the purpose of pre-venting the success of the American venture at Fort Hall,
. Ox-team days on the Oregon Trail /by Ezra Meeker ; revised and edited by Howard R. Driggs. riggs A sheep herders wagon in the sage-covered hills of Wyoming nearthe Oregon Trail. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE TRAILING ON TO THE SOUTH PASS The Snake River was crossed just below the mouth of theBoise, about where, almost fifty-four years before, we hadmade our second crossing of the river. We were landed on the historic site of old Fort Boise,established by the Hudsons Bay Company in September,1834. This fort was established for the purpose of pre-venting the success of the American venture at Fort Hall,a post established earlier in 1834 by Nathaniel J. venture proved a failure, and the fort soonpassed to his rival, the Hudsons Bay Company. Thus forthe time being the British had rule of the whole of that vastregion known as the Inland Empire, then the OregonCountry. Some relics of the old fort at Boise were secmed. Arrange-ments were made for planting a doubly inscribed stone tomark the trail and the site of the fort, and afterwards, 185 186 Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail. Sheep ready for shipment at Caldwell, Idaho. Broun Bros. through the liberahty of the citizens of Boise City, a stonewas ordered and put in place. At Boise, the capital of Idaho, there were nearly twelvehundred contributions to the monument fund by the pupilsof the public schools. The monument stands on the StateHouse grounds and is inscribed as the childrens offering tothe memory of the pioneers. More than three thousandpeople attended the dedication service. The spirit of cooperation and good will towards the en-terprise that was manifested at the capital city prevailedall through Idaho. From Parma, the first town we cameto on the western edge, to Montpelier, near the easternboundary, the people of Idaho seemed anxious to do theirpart in marking the old trail. Besides the places alreadynamed, Twin Falls, American Falls, Pocatello, and SodaSprings all responded to the appeal by erecting monum
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