. Ox-team days on the Oregon Trail /by Ezra Meeker ; revised and edited by Howard R. Driggs. d oppor-tunity to strengthen the buoyancy of the raft with extratimber carried upon the backs of the men for long distances. Then the question arose, how should they know whenthey would reach the falls? Would they be able to discoverthe falls in time to make a landing.^ Their fears finallygot the better of them and a line was run ashore; butinstead of making a landing, they found themselves hardaground out of reach of land, except by wading a longdistance. This occurred while they were many milesabove
. Ox-team days on the Oregon Trail /by Ezra Meeker ; revised and edited by Howard R. Driggs. d oppor-tunity to strengthen the buoyancy of the raft with extratimber carried upon the backs of the men for long distances. Then the question arose, how should they know whenthey would reach the falls? Would they be able to discoverthe falls in time to make a landing.^ Their fears finallygot the better of them and a line was run ashore; butinstead of making a landing, they found themselves hardaground out of reach of land, except by wading a longdistance. This occurred while they were many milesabove the falls, or Cascades. At last they gave up theraft and procured a scow. In this they reached the headof the Cascades in safety. As we neared Portland we felt that a long task had beencompleted. Yet reaching the end of the Overland Traildid not mean that our pioneer struggles were over. Beforeus lay still another task — the conquest of the new it was no easy work, we were to learn, to find a homeor make one in the western wilderness. PART TWO SETTLING IN THE NORTHWEST COUNTRY. This is the region in which Ezra Meeker settled in 1852, when it wasall known as the Oregon Country and had not been divided intoWashington and Oregon. The journey from Portland to Kalama,where the first cabin was built, is shown by Une 1. The Une marked2 shows the route followed in the journey to explore the Puget Soundregion. The brothers went as far as Port Townsend, but turned backto make the second home at Steilacoom. Line 3 is the trail throughthe Natchess Pass, the trail that Ezra Meeker followed to meet busfathers party coming up through the Blue Mountains.
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