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Title: Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail

Author: Ezra Meeker
Howard R. Driggs

Illustrator: F. N. Wilson

Release Date: July 29, 2009 [EBook #29543]

Language: English

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Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail

[Illustration: Ezra Meeker.]

[Illustration: Signature: Ezra Meeker]

_Pioneer Life Series_

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Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail

by
_Ezra Meeker_

in collaboration with
_Howard R. Driggs_

Professor of Education in English
University of Utah

[Illustration]

_Illustrated with drawings
by F. N. Wilson
and with photographs_

Yonkers-on-Hudson, New York

_World Book Company_

1927

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The Oregon Trail--what suggestion the name carries of the heroic toil of
pioneers! Yet a few years' ago the route of the trail was only vaguely
known. Then public interest was awakened by the report that one of the
very men who had made the trip to Oregon in the old days was traversing
the trail once more, moving with ox team and covered wagon from his home
in the state of Washington, and marking the old route as he went. The
man with the ox team was Ezra Meeker. He went on to the capital, where
Mr. Roosevelt, then President, met him with joy. Then he traversed the
long trail once more with team and wagon--back to that Northwest which
he had so long made his home. This book gives Mr. Meeker's story of his
experiences on the Oregon Trail when it was new, and again when,
advanced in years, he retraced the journey of his youth that Americans
might ever know where led the footsteps of th