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Identifier: oxteamdaysontheor1922eng Title: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookidoxteamdaysontheor1922eng">Ox-team days on the Oregon Trail /by Ezra Meeker ; revised and edited by Howard R. Driggs</a> Year: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookyear1922">1922</a> (<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookdecade1920">1920s</a>) Authors: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookauthorMeeker__Ezra_1830_1928">Meeker, Ezra 1830-1928</a> Subjects: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/booksubjectOverland_journeys_to_the_Pacific">Overland journeys to the Pacific</a> <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/booksubjectOregon_Trail">Oregon Trail</a> Publisher: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookpublisherYonkers_on_Hudson__New_York__World_Book_Company__1922">Yonkers-on-Hudson, New York: World Book Company, 1922</a> Contributing Library: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookcontributorChurch_History_Library__The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter_day_Saints">Church History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints</a> Digitizing Sponsor: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/booksponsorCorporation_of_the_Presiding_Bishop__The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter_day_Saints">Corporation of the Presiding Bishop, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints</a>

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Text Appearing Before Image: his work andwould go freely all day. It was brought home to me moreforcibly than ever that in the loss of the Twist ox I hadalmost lost the whole team. When I drove out from Lexington behind a hired horseteam that day, with the Dave ox tagging on behind andsometimes pulling on his halter, and with an unbrokencow in leading, it may easily be guessed that the pride ofanticipated success died out, and deep discouragementseized upon me. I had two yokes, one a heavy ox yoke, theother a light cows yoke; but the cow, I thought, couldnot be worked alongside the ox in the ox yoke, nor the oxwith the cow in the cow yoke. I was without a team, butwith a double encumbrance. Yes, the ox has passed, for in all Nebraska I was unableto find even one yoke. I trudged along, sometimes behind the led cattle,wondering in my mind whether or not I had been foolishto undertake this expedition to perpetuate the memory ofthe old Oregon Trgdl. Had I not been rebuffed at the 208 Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail

Text Appearing After Image: Brown Bros. The railroad bridge at Omaha, crossing the Missouri where in 1853we went over by ferry. first by a number of business men who pushed the subjectaside with, I have no time to look into it? Hadnt I beencompelled to pass several towns where not even threepersons could be found to act on the committee? Andthen there was the experience of the constant suspicionthat there was some graft to be discovered, some lurk-ing speculation. All this could be borne in patience;but when coupled with it came the virtual loss of theteam, is it strange that my spirits went down below anormal point? Then came the compensatory thought of what had beenaccomplished. Four states had responded cordially. Backalong the line of more than fifteen hundied miles alreadystood many sentinels, mostly granite, to mark the trailand keep alive the memory of the pioneers. Moreover, Irecalled the enthusiastic reception in so many places, theoutpouring of contributions from thousands of schoolchildren, the willin

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