. Ox-team days on the Oregon Trail /by Ezra Meeker ; revised and edited by Howard R. Driggs. ^^ ^~ ^ ^^ ^ A prosperous fruit farm along the trail Broun Br were closed, and the school children in a body came overto the dedication. The monument was donated by theTenino Quarry Company; it is inscribed Old OregonTrail: 1843-57. In the evening I addressed a good-sized audience, andsixteen dollars was received to help on the good work. Thespirit of the people, more than the money, was encouraging. At Chehalis, Washington, the Commercial Club under-took to erect and dedicate a monument. As the people
. Ox-team days on the Oregon Trail /by Ezra Meeker ; revised and edited by Howard R. Driggs. ^^ ^~ ^ ^^ ^ A prosperous fruit farm along the trail Broun Br were closed, and the school children in a body came overto the dedication. The monument was donated by theTenino Quarry Company; it is inscribed Old OregonTrail: 1843-57. In the evening I addressed a good-sized audience, andsixteen dollars was received to help on the good work. Thespirit of the people, more than the money, was encouraging. At Chehalis, Washington, the Commercial Club under-took to erect and dedicate a monument. As the peoplewanted a more expensive one than could be obtainedspeedily, a stone was ordered and we selected a spot in thepark for it and set a post there. Mrs. Ware, one of thedaughters of John R. Jackson, the first American citizen tosettle north of the Columbia River, helped to plant thispost. At Toledo, the place where the pioneers left the CowlitzRiver on the trail to the Sound, another marker wasplaced by the citizens. A Plan for a Memorial to the Pioneers 175. The first marker erected on the oldtrail, at Tenino, Washington. From Toledo Ishipped the whole out-fit by steamer downthe Cowlitz River, andtook passage with myassistants to Portland,thus reversing theorder of travel in used steam insteadof the brawn of stal-wart pioneers and In-dians to propel the boat. On the evening of March thefirst I pitched my tent in the heart of the city of Portland,on a grassy vacant lot. On the morning of the tenth of March I took steamerwith my outfit, bound up the Columbia for The wondrous the change! Fifty-four years before, I hadcome floating down this same stream in a flatboat with aparty of poor, heartsick pioneers; now I made the trip en-joying cushioned chairs, delicious foods, fine linens, maga-zines and books — every luxury of civilized life. That night I arrived at The Dalles, and drove nearlythree quarters of a mile to a camping ground near the streets were m
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