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The Ezra Meeker Historical Post Cards for Schools, Libraries, the Home, and Collectors. This typical scene of the Oregon country illustrates faintly some of the difficulties encountered. Just ahead of the team shown is a difficult rocky point that could not be rounded entirely, but presented one of those steep "pitches" over the ridge where in many cases double teams had to be used in the early days. In the background is a vast herd of sheep quietly grazing - mere specks on the landscape - that reminds one of like scenes in pioneer days on the plains, with the buffalo so numerous the further view would become as a tint on the landscape where individual animals were indistinguishable |
