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Show MONUMENTS SET ON OLD OREGON TRAIL Captain Nickerson Completes Com-pletes Work in Honor of Hardy Pioneers. Special to The Tribune. MOXTPELIKR. Idaho. Sept. 11. After three years of hard work Captain H. J. EfiafcarooB of Lander has just completed tb1 last monument to pioneers pio-neers who came over the Oregon trail fifty nine vcars ago. The last monument monu-ment was set near Border, jort over the Idaho tlnte line from here. 'Captain NickerftOD ii president of the Oreeu Trail association in Wyoming and three years ago started marking the trail used bv th tirt settlers in the west. Starting where the trail first entvrd Wyoming, at Henry, nn the Xebrtska state line, following up the Piatte river to Caspar. wher it -Tossed Mie fiweet water river, following that river Pa cific Springs, then on tbe Little Sandv to th mouth of Slate ojeek to Sublef. up fh Hams Fork and down the Demp sey rasin to CokeviUe and out of th state at "Pordr. Captain NVkerpon has marked tbn entir1 distant. In addition to marking the trail be has placed mon-umDt mon-umDt at all the old fort? and land mark? on and adjacent to tb" trail, in eluding old Fort Bozmevillp on Green river. The work has been vtfty tedious and much crpdit is due Captain NVkerson for hi patriotic service. WbarereY it was possible ' Oregon trail" and the dat1 wa" Irirved in th rnrk palisades atone thp way. hut in many places huge piles of r6Cl wor hauled "bv team and a monument built and suitably in-scHbpd. in-scHbpd. Captain Nir krson himself is an old pioneer of Wvoming and has held man' positions of trust in the stat. He was n mmhpr of thp Wvoming territorial legislature and later of the const i hi -j tional convention and served for thir 1 teen years as Tndian and land agent at Lander. |