Ezra Meeker

The Ox Team or the Old Oregon Trail - 1909 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...