Download or read book The Busy Life of Eighty five Years of Ezra Meeker written by Ezra Meeker and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Busy Life of Eighty Five Years of Ezra Meeker written by Ezra Meeker and published by anboco. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just why I should write a preface I know not, except that it is fashionable to do so, and yet in the present case there would seem a little explanation due the reader, who may cast his eye on the first chapter of this work. Indeed, the chapter, "Early Days in Indiana," may properly be termed an introduction, though quite intimately connected with the narrative that follows, yet not necessary to make a completed story of the trip to Oregon in the early fifties. The enlarged scope of this work, narrating incidents not connected with the Oregon Trail or the Ox Team expedition, may call for this explanation, that the author's thought has been to portray frontier life in the Old Oregon Country, as well as pioneer life on the plains; to live his experiences of eighty-five years over again, and tell them in plain, homely language, to the end the later generation may know how the "fathers" lived, what they did, and what they thought in the long ago. An attempt has been made to teach the young lessons of industry, frugality, upright and altruistic living as exemplified in the lives of the pioneers. While acknowledging the imperfections of the work, yet to parents I can sincerely say they may safely place this volume in the home without fear that the adventures recited will arouse a morbid craving in the minds of their children. The adventures are of real life, and incident to a serious purpose in life, and not stories of fancy to make exciting reading, although some of them may seem as such. "Truth is stranger than fiction," and the pioneers have no need to borrow from their imagination. Seattle, Washington.
Download or read book The Busy Life of Eighty Five Years of Ezra Meeker Illustrated Edition written by Ezra Meeker and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-31 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meeker (1830-1928) was an American pioneer who travelled the Oregon Trail by ox-drawn wagon as a young man and in later life worked to memorialise the Trail, retracing the trip of his youth. He was the author of several books based on his life and experiences, this one marking his eighty-fifth birthday.
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