The Ox Team or the Old Oregon Trail - 1909

By Meeker Ezra Meeker

These were times when sugar sold for eighteen cents per pound, calico fifteen cents per yard, salt three dollars a barrel, and all other goods at these comparatively high prices, while butter would bring but ten cents a pound, eggs five cents a dozen, and wheat but two bits (twenty-five cents) a bushel. And so, when these farmers went to the market town (Indianapolis) care was tak n to carry along something to sell, either some eggs or butter or perhaps a half dozen pairs of socles or maybe a few yards of cloth, as well as some grain, or hay or a bit of pork, or possibly a load of wood, to make ends meet at the store...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1594624690
• ISBN13: 9781594624698
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Book Jungle
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.5" x 9.3"