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SUSAN-022 Front

  • Ezra Meeker, a Washington pioneer and historian, is shown here with his ox team and covered wagon among a group of onlookers. In an effort to preserve and memorialize the Old Oregon Trail, Meeker took two covered wagon trips back across it in 1906-1908 and 1910-1912. After the first trip, Meeker spent some time in California conducting research on the trail. He briefly returned to Washington when his wife died, but traveled back to California with his wagon and ox team to fulfill a prior commitment to drive in the Pasadena Rose Bowl Parade- an event he knew would be good for publicity. He then embarked on his second re-crossing of the trail, raising funds along the way to erect markers. This photo was probably taken shortly before leaving on his second trek.
  • Printed on front: Camp in the Park.

SUSAN-021 Front

  • Washington pioneer and Oregon Trail historian Ezra Meeker is shown here with President Teddy Roosevelt and his covered wagon at the end of a cross-country trip from Puyallup, Washington. Meeker underwent this arduous journey by wagon and ox team in efforts to preserve the Old Trail and raise commemorative markers for its pioneers. After reaching what he considered the end (or the beginning, from a pioneer viewpoint) of the Trail in Omaha, Nebraska, Meeker continued on to Washington, D.C. where he requested support for his project from President Roosevelt. Although the president urged Congress to consider a bill appropriating $50,000 for trail preservation, the bill failed. This did not discourage Meeker from tirelessly promoting his cause until his death in 1928.
  • Printed on front: President Roosevelt viewing the Team, 1907.

SUSAN-021 Back

Printed on back: No one on the whole trip showed a livelier interest in the effort to monument the Oregon Trail, than did Mr. Roosevelt; recommended an appropriation by Congress to complete this work.

SUSAN-020 Front

  • Washington pioneer Ezra Meeker, on one of his two commemorative re-crossings of the Old Oregon Trail between 1906-1912, pauses with his ox team and wagon before Chimney Rock. This rock formation was one of the most noted landmarks in the mid-19th century for travelers of the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails. It is considered a symbol of the largest voluntary migration of people in the history of mankind. The rock is now a National Historic Site.
  • Printed on front: Chimney Rock, near Bayard, North Platee, Neb.

SUSAN-020 Back

Printed on back: This wonderful land mark could be seen long distances before the growth of timber in the North Platte Valley. Seen in mirage 50 miles away in 1852.

SUSAN-019 Front

  • Washington pioneer Ezra Meeker's ox team steadily pull his covered wagon along the Old Oregon Trail, past a group of curious onlookers. This photo was probably taken near the end of the first of Meeker's commemorative re-crossings of the trail, from 1906-1908, and then again from 1910-1912. The trips were undertaken to preserve the trail and raise monuments to its original pioneers. A banner on the side of the wagon, barely legible in the photo, appears to mark his progress on the journey.
  • Printed on front: Way down in Old Missouri.

SUSAN-018 Front

  • Two photos of pioneer Ezra Meeker on the first of his two re-crossings of the Old Oregon Trail between 1906-1912. The top photo shows Meeker trying to find wagon tracks in a rugged, brushy hillside. The bottom photo depicts Meeker, his dog Jim and several other people gathered around a commemorative trail marker just placed by Meeker.
  • Printed on front: Found the Trail. Planting a Marker.

SUSAN-018 Back

Printed on back: These two realistic views graphicaly record the work of recovering the "Lost Trail," and preserving its identity, better than volumes of written testimony; 1906.

SUSAN-017 Front

  • Portrait of Washington pioneer Ezra Meeker resting beside his wagon during the first of his two re-crossings of the Old Oregon Trail. This journeys took place between 1906-1912, with the purpose of marking the trail before it was lost, and placing commemorative monuments along the way for its original pioneers. Meeker's dog, Jim, can be seen lying at the far left of the photo. The man at the right is Meeker's driver, William Mardon, who has been painted out of other editions of this post card.
  • Printed on front: Nooning.

SUSAN-017 Back

Printed on back: On the Plains 1906; a snap shot without posing near Wells Spring, Oregon; busy writing journal of previous day.

SUSAN-016 Front

  • Ezra Meeker stands within an enclosed grave area. A small memorial stone is at his feet. Meeker and the group of people standing around the grave appear thoughtful and reverent.
  • Printed on front: The Lone Grave.

SUSAN-016 Back

Printed on back: But few of the graves on the Plains have been preserved. A sypathetic pioneer settlement of a later date have cared for this one although the history of it comes down as a legend- in fact lost. Ezra Meeker addressing the pioneers; Neb., 1910.

SUSAN-015 Front

  • Two faintly discernible sets of wagon tracks pass through a barren stretch of prairie.
  • Printed on front: View on the Oregon Trail near Thirty Two Mile Creek Crossing: Nebraska.

SUSAN-015 Back

Printed on back: Note the two parallel trails in this view and how they come together on the ascending ground; these Trails were four feet deep on the lower levels and near seven on the upper stretch.

SUSAN-014 Front

  • A montage of photos from Ezra Meeker's two wagon crossings of the Old Oregon Trail between 1906-1912. We see two different views of the ox team and covered wagon, two commemorative markers placed on the trail, and a portrait of a bearded, bespectacled Meeker.
  • Printed on front: Ezra Meeker Enroute, On the Plains, 1st Boulder Marked, Summit of Rocky Mts.

SUSAN-013 Front

  • Ezra Meeker, a Washington State pioneer, undertook two re-crossing of the Old Oregon Trail between 1906-1912 to raise commemorative markers for its original pioneers. This photo was taken on the eve of his departure for the first trip. Camp 1, as he called it, was on the lawn of his own house. The Meeker Mansion was a 17- room structure built in 1890. Meeker was correct in predicting that the building would last long into the future. It is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and serves as a museum in the city of Puyallup.
  • Printed on front: Ezra Meeker's Homestead, Puyallup, Wash. Camp No. 1, Old Oregon Trail Monument Expedition January 29th, 1906.

SUSAN-013 Back

Printed on back: Standing upon a solid stone foundation, built of six varieties of native wood, furniture finished inside, heavily sanded in oil outside, barring accidents, this residence will remain for centuries.

SUSAN-012 Front

  • Old Washington pioneer Ezra Meeker, his driver William Mardon, ox team, and covered wagon stand at rest at the side of a road in Boise.
  • Printed on front: At Boise, Idaho.

SUSAN-012 Back

Printed on back: This view was taken a few moments prior to the commencement of service dedicating the childrens monument shown elsewhere in this collection. More than 5000 people attended.

SUSAN-011 Front

  • Jim, a Scotch collie, accompanied Ezra Meeker on at least the first of his two rigorous wagon re-crossings of the Old Oregon Trail between 1906-1912. These trips were undertaken to raise commemorative markers along the way.
  • Printed on front: Jim.

SUSAN-011 Back

Printed on back: This faithful dog has been with the expedition from the start. Jim has had more adventures than any other dog living; run over by a trolley car, then again by a heavily loaded truck where the other dog was killed that he was fighting and he nearly so; then hooked over the fence by an irrate cow and again by Dave thrown over a sage brush; then again kicked into the air by a vicious horse and then again tackled by a wolf and finally lost in New York City for three days. Yet ever ready to stand guard over the wagon, never willing to ride while the team is in motion; Jim is indeed a great dog.

SUSAN-010 Back

Printed on back: Once so vast in number but now extinct on the Plains this illustration will revive the memories of Pioneers of what was so often seen and quite too often dreaded in the wild stampedes led by just such fellows as here illustrated.

SUSAN-009 Front

  • Elk photographed in three different settings: by a river, in a forested area, and near the mountains. Decorative artwork scrolls around the photos.
  • Printed on front: Elk in Native State

SUSAN-009 Back

Printed on back: This beautiful group of elk typifies scenes of early days, but this was before the advent of the camera. Like the view, however, now at rare intervals gladden the heart of the hunters, not only in the Rockies yet also the Olympic, even above the clouds.

SUSAN-008 Front

  • Ezra Meeker walks slightly ahead of his ox team, who are straining to pull the covered wagon up a jagged, rocky path. This photo was taken during Meeker's second re-crossing of the Old Oregon Trail, which he undertook to raise commemorative markers for its original pioneers.
  • Printed on front: A difficult Drive, Snake River, Idaho, 1910.

SUSAN-008 Back

Printed on back: The canyon here is nearly a thousand feet deep and is certainly a rough rocky drive as shown more plainly in the foreground.

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