Today's installment concludes Life on the Oregon Trail,our selection from The Busy Life of Eighty-Five Years of Ezra Meeker by Ezra Meeker published

They converted the wagons into makeshift boats.Continuing Life on the Oregon Trail,our selection from The Busy Life of Eighty-Five Years of Ezra

It is certain that history gives no record of such great numbers migrating so long a distance as that of the Pioneers of the Plains, where, as we have

We did not, however, have much trouble with the Indians in 1852.Continuing Life on the Oregon Trail,our selection from The Busy Life of

In the darkness of the night we could soon see the form of the foremost leader and then such dense masses that one could not distinguish one from the

The word hardly expresses the situation; in fact, the English language contains no words to properly express it.Continuing Life on the Oregon

"Keep cool," he continued; "maybe we'll have to lay down, and maybe not. Anyway, it's no use frettin'. What's to be will be, 'specially if we but help