The Busy Life of Eighty Five Years
signed first edition Portrait frontispiece, 31 illustrations. xii, (400) pp. plus ads. 1 vols. 8vo
1916 · Seattle, WA
by Meeker, Ezra
Seattle, WA: published by the author, 1916. First edition thus. Portrait frontispiece, 31 illustrations. xii, (400) pp. plus ads. 1 vols. 8vo. Red cloth, stamped in black. A little faded and soiled, front free endpaper and flyleaf stuck together, some soiling to verso of title, else very good. First edition thus. Portrait frontispiece, 31 illustrations. xii, (400) pp. plus ads. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed: "To Dorothy [Hickney?], with compliments of the author Ezra Meeker". Also signed on frontispiece.Ezra Meeker (1830-1928) married at 21, and promptly left with his new wife in an ox-drawn covered wagon for Iowa. The next spring, the young couple left for Oregon, and reached Portland October 1 of that year. In 1853, they, and his brother, journeyed north of the Columbia River in search of a homesite, landing first on McNeil's Island in Puget Sound, then latering moving to Puyallup, where Meeker built the first cabin. When he was 75, Meeker resolved to dedicate the remainder of his life to the commemorative marking of the Oregon Trail, and left Puyallup in January 1906 with an ox-drawn covered wagon to follow as much of the Trail as was still open.The present title is actually a revised edition of Ventures and Adventrues of Ezra Meeker (1909). Smith 6698 (Inventory #: 42470)