. Ox-team days on the Oregon Trail /by Ezra Meeker ; revised and edited by Howard R. Driggs. alles, on the Columbia River. CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR ON THE OVERLAND TRAIL AGAIN It was the fourteenth of March when I drove out of TheDalles to make the long overland journey. By rail, it is1734 miles from The Dalles to Omaha, where our work ofmarking the old trail was to end. By wagon road the dis-tance is greater, but not much greater — probably 1800miles. The load was very heavy, and so were the roads. With ateam untradned to the road and one of the oxen unbroken,with no experienced ox driver to assis
. Ox-team days on the Oregon Trail /by Ezra Meeker ; revised and edited by Howard R. Driggs. alles, on the Columbia River. CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR ON THE OVERLAND TRAIL AGAIN It was the fourteenth of March when I drove out of TheDalles to make the long overland journey. By rail, it is1734 miles from The Dalles to Omaha, where our work ofmarking the old trail was to end. By wagon road the dis-tance is greater, but not much greater — probably 1800miles. The load was very heavy, and so were the roads. With ateam untradned to the road and one of the oxen unbroken,with no experienced ox driver to assist me, and the gradesheavy, small wonder if a feeling of depression crept overme. On some long hills we could move only a few rods at atime, and on level roads, with the least warm sun, the un-broken ox would poke out his tongue. We were passing now through the great farming districtof eastern Oregon. The desert over which we had draggedourselves in those long-ago days has been largely turnedinto great wheat fields. As we drew into camp one night 177 178 Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail. On the Overland Trail Again 179
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