You Need Gumption To Eek a Living From This Rough Country!
“For detailed information of an objective sort, a separate shop manual for the specific make and model of machine must be used. In addition, a general shop manual such as Audel’s Automotive Guide fills in the gaps. .. .But there’s another kind of detail that no shop manual goes into but that is common to all machines and can be given here. This is the detail of the Quality relationship, the gumption relationship, between the machine and the mechanic, which is just as intricate as the machine itself. Throughout the process of fixing the machine things always come up, low-quality things, from a dusted knuckle to an accidentally ruined "irreplaceable" assembly. These drain off gumption, destroy enthusiasm and leave you so discouraged you want to forget the whole business. I call these things "gumption traps.“(Cont.Next)
Ten mi East of Baker, OR.
New Topic: Ahead, at Baker, the ZMM Route crosses The The Oregon National Historic Trail. This is the route, ~ 1843 to ~1855, that ox powered covered wagons followed on their way from Missouri to the rich lands of Western Oregon. The Oregon Trail in this region is now approximately followed by both US Route 30 and Interstate I-84 from Pocatello ID to Portland OR.
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(Photo = 111-1188 ...... ZMM Page = 273 ...... WayPt = 301w 2970ft)