Ezra Meeker; Champion of the Oregon Trail

Book

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St. Joseph Museums

Name/Title

Ezra Meeker; Champion of the Oregon Trail

Entry/Object ID

L1993.1.14

Description

Ezra Meeker; Champion of the Oregon Trail relates the efforts of Ezra Meeker to perserve the Old Oregon Trail in 1906. Meeker had first set out on it in 1852, and he was now 76 years old. He went to Washington and met the President, collecting donations to pay for and plant granite trail monuments as he went. There are 98 original, rare Meeker post cards and newer pictures of the Old Oregon Trail most of which have never been in a book. 103/Softbound/Illustrations/Maps/Photographs

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Westerns

Search Terms

Oregon Trail, Meeker,Ezra 1830-1928, Historic Sites-Oregon Trail-Conservation and restoration, Trail, Old Oregon Trail, Meeker, Ezra

Book Details

Author

Webber, Bert and Margie Webber

Place Published

City

Medford

State/Province

Oregon

Date Published

1992

Call No.

Western WE

ISBN

0-936738-19-7

LCCN

92-5837

Notes

Copy No.: 1

Condition

Overall Condition

Excellent

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Ezra Meeker