Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail

so glad

(5 stars)

obx12

As a seventh grader of the 50s I wrote about the Oregon Trail. As an adult my husband and I followed the Trail in our camper even walking in some of the wagon ruts. Now as 2018 passes I have gotten to experience The Trail once again! Thank you Librox and readers. I am Truly glad.

(5 stars)

Roughout

Great story and well read. I also enjoy the lessons of history.

First Rate Pioneer History

(5 stars)

gaboora

What men, women, children, babies, and animals went through to settle the west is useful history to learn about in our flaccid age. I have more respect for what all of them went through after hearing this book. And I have great appreciation of the fact that oxen did the heavy work. This history is interesting all the way through, and gets better as it goes, ending with the largely successful attempt to 'monument' the trail. There are many surprising things to learn from this history book: the price of food during a boom, the hops industry, how fortunes were made and lost, et cetera. The most instructive bit is how depression was cured. When the party got to the end of the trail, and realized the work ahead, and how hard it would be to return, depression set in. How did this state of gloominess turn around? Through singing and mourning at the death of a loved one, a new joy and resolve emerged. No antidepressants required. The vignettes about the ox named Twist and the dog name Jim are the bits that I found most endearing. Many readers participate in the narration of 'Ox Team Days.' I quickly and easily adapted my ear to each one of them. This is a job well done.

(5 stars)

black cats of montford

Thank you for this well read and interesting book. It’s true that place names were pronounced in a wide variety of ways, and that some details were overlooked, but I give this story points for existing at all, and I give Ezra Meeker points for caring enough to write it down and to mark the Oregon Trail as an elderly man. This account was first published in 1907, and compared to many of his contemporaries, Meeker was an open-minded man. He seems to have understood the anger of the native tribes, even if he participated in the taking of their lands. He apologizes for the rash destruction of places and unfair treatment of Native Americans. So yes, I am Meeker’s apologist but in a way. As for overlooked details, no one book can possibly contain them all. There ARE other accounts, some by women, some to be found on LibriVox.

Ox-Team days on the Oregon Trail

(5 stars)

Joseph Brown

I really enjoy a book such as thus as it was written of that time and not researched and recreated as many modern day books would need to be. I'm certain many books about the Oregon Trail fall back on this book for information! I actually did like the multiple readers of the various chapters, although some are definitely better than others!

works like This are why i appreciate Librivox so much!!!

(5 stars)

GM Jones

(July 2020) I would have never known of, much less "read" "Ox- Team" without my dear Librivox! thank you to the reader and proof listeners for a wonderful work! I enjoyed the entire account of the author's upbringing and the journey. IMAGINE: BLAZING the trail to Oregon??? and we are going along for the ride!?!

Ox-Team

(4 stars)

Chalood

Good account of trials of the trail. Like many recollections details suffer. Even with the variety of readers it was well done.

Orygun

(5 stars)

Tom Magnum

it's Ory-gun not Ora-Gone. great story and readers. thanks