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SUSAN-025 Front
Date(s)
- c. 1910 (Creation)
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- An unusually formal portrait of Ezra Meeker dressed in leather frontier clothing and holding an elaborate rifle. Meeker, an original traveler of the Oregon Trail, was probably best known for his tireless efforts to preserve and permanently mark its route. He made two journeys by ox team and wagon late in his life to raise monuments along the trail. Meeker nearly achieved his desire to live to be 100. He died 27 days before his 98th birthday.
- Printed on front: Ezra Meeker as Frontiersman.