Opening of the book
PRESIDENT AND OLD PIONEER
Signature of President Coolidge
from the White House,
March 25, 1926.
PRESIDENT AND OLD PIONEER
Calvin Coolidge and Ezra Meeker, two stalwart Americans—the President a New
Englander, and Mr. Meeker a native of Ohio, though for nearly all his adult life a resident of the Pacific Northwest. Mr. Meeker was a youth past fourteen when the late John C.
Coolidge, father of the President, was born. Photograph taken on the White House grounds, near the Executive Offices, in October 1924, just after Mr. Meeker had flown in an aeroplane from Washington State to the City of Washington: and the old gentleman took advantage of the opportunity to say to the President—as he had to President Theodore
Roosevelt near the same spot on November 29, 1907—that the memory of the Pioneers should be preserved, and the route of the Oregon Trail suitably and permanently marked.
EZRA MEEKER
EZRA MEEKER
Born December 29, 1830. Only survivor (1926) among the adults who passed over the
Oregon Trail in their own outfits at the height of the migration of 1852. Founder and
President of the Oregon Trail Memorial Association, Inc.
KATE MULHALL
A Romance of the
OREGON TRAIL
By
EZRA MEEKER
Author of: Ox-Team Days, Pioneer Reminiscences,
The Busy Life of 85 Years, Pioneer Stories for
Children, Story of the Lost Trail to Oregon
Drawings by Margaret Landers Sanford, Rudolf A. Kauach
and Oscar W. Lyons
Map of the Oregon Trail, and photographs
(oxen and wagon)
Published by
EZRA MEEKER
18 OLD SLIP, NEW YORK CITY
THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED AS A TRIBUTE OF DEVOTION TO
THE MEMORIES OF
PHOEBE BAKER MEEKER
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