Publication: Overland Journal, Vol. 40, No. 1
Author: Norman E Wright
Date of Publication: Spring 2022
PDF File: Wright-2022-Odometers-DISTANCE-MEASUREMENT-on-WESTERN-EMIGRANT.pdf
Description
Miles. Distance. Distance was the enemy, not Indians or crossings or weather or thirst or plains or mountains, but distance, the empty, awesome face of distance, the miles on wrinkled miles of it, the levels and hills and hollows and bluffs, unconquerable by the slow turn of wheels or the creaking step of oxen. There was no end to it, not even any shortening.