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Show Pioneer Village Offers Education, Old-Fashion Fun If a picture is worth a thousand words, an oxen ride at Pioneer Village is worth a hundred times that many words. Many school and church groups are discovering this truth when they visit the village vil-lage as part of their Utah history studies. Included in the admission fee for organized groups, is a ride in an old ox wagon, pulled by two large, ferocious - looking oxen. Dangerous - appearing, these reddish-brown beasts of burden have been trained by EIRoy Neilson so well that they seldom move any faster than a plodding walk. On occasion, when a group has been posing with the oxen for a photograph, one of the young boys has been swung up to sit astride the near ox and in perfect safety. safe-ty. However, this has been done under close supervision of trainer Neilson. As for the hundred thousand words when a child rides behind the span of oxen, he learns that the wagon starts with a literal jerk; that it's easy to walk faster than-the oxen do; and he begins to realize what it meant to the western pioneers to ride hour af-" af-" ; , , ter hour in their -slow-moving ve-nicies. ve-nicies. t |