. Ox-team days on the Oregon Trail /by Ezra Meeker ; revised and edited by Howard R. Driggs. 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 thro
. Ox-team days on the Oregon Trail /by Ezra Meeker ; revised and edited by Howard R. Driggs. 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 monumentsto mark the Old Trail. One rather exciting incident happened near vicious bull attacked my ox team, first from one side I Trailing on to the South Pass 187. The monument to the trailat Boise, Idaho. and then the other. Then hegot in between the oxen andcaused them nearly to upsetthe wagon. I was throwndown in the mix-up, butfortunately escaped un-harmed. This incident reminded meof a scrape one of our neigh-boring trains got into on thePlatte in 1852, with a woundedbuffalo. The train had en-countered a large herd ofthese animals, feeding andtraveling at right angles to theroad. The older heads of theparty, fearing a stampede oftheir teams, had ordered the men not to molest the buffaloes, but to give their wholeattention to the care of the teams. One impulsive youngfellow would not be restrained; he fired into the herdand wounded a large bull. The maddened bull chargedupon a wagon filled with women and children anddrawn by a team of mules. He became entangled inthe harness and was caught on the wagon-tongue betweenthe mules. The air was full of exc
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