THE BUSY LIFE
OF
Eighty-Five Years
OF
EZRA MEEKER
VENTURES AND ADVENTURES
Sixty-three years of Pioneer Life in the Old Oregon Country; An Account
of the Author's Trip Across the Plains with an Ox Team, 1852;
Return Trip, 1906-7; His Cruise on Puget Sound, 1853;
Trip Through the Natchess Pass, 1854; Over
the Chilcoot Pass; Flat-boating on the
Yukon, 1898.
THE OREGON TRAIL
AUTHOR OF PIONEER "REMINISCENCES OF PUGET SOUND"—"THE TRAGEDY OF
LESCHI"—"HOP CULTURE IN THE UNITED STATES"—"WASHINGTON
TERRITORY WEST OF THE CASCADE MOUNTAINS"—"THE OX
TEAM"—"UNCLE EZRA'S SHORT STORIES FOR
THE CHILDREN."
PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR
$1.50 Postpaid
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON
Copyright 1916
by
Ezra Meeker
Press Wm. B. Burford
Indianapolis
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER I. | |
| Autobiography. | |
| Birth and Parentage—Boyhood Days—Aversion to School—Early Ambitions—Farm Training—Life in a Printing Office—At Tippecanoe as a Songster | 7 |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| Time of My Youth. | |
| Our Ohio Home—A Period of Invention—The Printing Press—Our Removal to Indiana—Habits Acquired on the Trip | 15 |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| Early Days in Indiana. | |
| I'm Going to Be a Farmer—Off for Iowa—An Iowa Winter | 18 |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| Off for Oregon. | |
| Preparation—Getting a Partner—First Day Out | 23 |
| CHAPTER V. | |
| The Ferry Across the Missouri | 26 |
| CHAPTER VI. | |
| Out on the Plains. | |
| Indian Country— ... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR! |