Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail, credited to Ezra Meeker and Howard Driggs, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Ox-Team Days on the Oregon TrailDays, by Ezra Meeker and Howard Driggs. Ezra Meeker...was an early pioneer who traveled the Oregon Trail by ox cart as a young man. Beginning in his 70s, he worked tirelessly to memorialize the trail, repeatedly retracing the trip of his youth. This book is a memoir of those days.(Summary by Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail
• Author credits: Ezra Meeker and Howard Driggs
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 30
• Listed recording duration: 5:34:24

Catalogue topics

• memoirs
• Oregon Trail
• pioneers

Opening tracks: first 24 of 30

1. 00 - Introduction to the Author — 7:54
2. 01 - Back to Beginnings — 13:15
3. 02 - Boyhood Days in Old Indiana — 8:56
4. 03 - Leaving the Home Nest for Iowa — 8:22
5. 04 - Taking the Trail for Oregon — 16:17
6. 05 - The Westward Rush — 6:43
7. 06 - The Pioneer Army of the Plains — 8:09
8. 07 - Indians and Buffaloes on the Plains — 7:15
9. 08 - Trailing through the Mountain Land — 11:56
10. 09 - Reaching the End of the Trail — 13:12
11. 10 - Getting a New Start in the New Land — 13:47
12. 11 - Hunting for Another Home Site — 12:05
13. 12 - Cruising About on Puget Sound — 19:25
14. 13 - Moving from the Columbia To Puget Sound — 11:35
15. 14 - Messages and Messengers — 12:34
16. 15 - Blazing the Way through Natchess Pass — 9:29
17. 16 - Climbing the Cascade Mountains — 9:12
18. 17 - Finding My People — 10:43
19. 18 - Indian War Days — 9:17
20. 19 - The Stampede for the Gold Diggings — 8:44
21. 20 - Making a Permanent Home in the Wilds — 15:25
22. 21 - Finding and Losing a Fortune — 10:14
23. 22 - Trying for a Fortune in Alaska — 6:00
24. 23 - A Plan for a Memorial to the Pioneers — 15:31

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