. Ox-team days on the Oregon Trail /by Ezra Meeker ; revised and edited by Howard R. Driggs. ther would not go into debt, so he lived on hisfarm a long time without a wagon. He finally became sowealthy that he was reputed to have a barrel of money —silver, of course. Out of this store came the thousanddollars that he gave mother. It took nearly a whole dayto count the money. At least one of nearly every coinfrom every nation on earth seemed to be there, and thetables had to be consulted in computing the value, I was working on the Journal at the time when the farmwas bought, but it seemed that
. Ox-team days on the Oregon Trail /by Ezra Meeker ; revised and edited by Howard R. Driggs. ther would not go into debt, so he lived on hisfarm a long time without a wagon. He finally became sowealthy that he was reputed to have a barrel of money —silver, of course. Out of this store came the thousanddollars that he gave mother. It took nearly a whole dayto count the money. At least one of nearly every coinfrom every nation on earth seemed to be there, and thetables had to be consulted in computing the value, I was working on the Journal at the time when the farmwas bought, but it seemed that I was not cut out for aprinter. My inclinations ran more to open-air life, so 14 Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail father placed me on the farm as soon as the purchase wasmade and left me in full charge of the work there, whilehe gave his time to milling. Be it said that I early turnedmy attention to the girls as well as to the farm and marriedyoung, before I reached the age of twenty-one. This trulywas a fortunate venture, for my wife and I lived happilytogether for fifty-eight
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