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August 9, 2010 | 3 Comments

Old Pioneer wagon by the highway at Kooskia, Idaho.

When I took the pic, I wasn’t aware of the elk at the top right corner of the frame.

Everything from the little house was in the wagon, except the beds and tables and chairs. They did not need to take these, because Pa could always make new ones. ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder

It’s hard now to imagine that kind of travel and the daily tasks they simply took for granted. If a wagon axle broke, you had to stop and carve a new one. To cross a river, you sometimes had to build a raft. ~ James Houston

- b.

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  1. Supriya says:
    August 10, 2010 at 10:43 pm

    Beautiful photography..takes one back so many years back in time! While I was reading Laura’s quotation I actually visualized Laura from Little House on the Prairie (Hallmark channel)say it :)

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  3. TexasDeb says:
    August 12, 2010 at 5:36 am

    I was looking around our front yard the other day wondering what (if anything) might be left as a remnant in any way folks would find charmingly reminiscent of days gone by in another 100 years.

    I just couldn’t picture it but maybe pioneers never thought that rusting out wagon was anything but a piece of broken useless equipment at the time. Eye of the beholder and all that…

    Great shot (and thanks for pointing out the elk – I’d have missed it otherwise).



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