Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Emmy and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail [Illustration: Ezra Meeker.] [Illustration: Signature: Ezra Meeker] _Pioneer Life Series_ * * * * * Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail by _Ezra Meeker_ in collaboration with _Howard R. Driggs_ Professor of Education in English University of Utah [Illustration] _Illustrated with drawings by F. N. Wilson and with photographs_ Yonkers-on-Hudson, New York _World Book Company_ 1927 WORLD BOOK COMPANY THE HOUSE OF APPLIED KNOWLEDGE Established 1905 by Caspar W. Hodgson YONKERS-ON-HUDSON, NEW YORK 2126 PRAIRIE AVENUE, CHICAGO The Oregon Trail--what suggestion the name carries of the heroic toil of pioneers! Yet a few years' ago the route of the trail was only vaguely known. Then public interest was awakened by the report that one of the very men who had made the trip to Oregon in the old days was traversing the trail once more, moving with ox team and covered wagon from his home in the state of Washington, and marking the old route as he went. The man with the ox team was Ezra Meeker. He went on to the capital, where Mr. Roosevelt, then President, met him with joy. Then he traversed the long trail once more with team and wagon--back to that Northwest which he had so long made his home. This book gives Mr. Meeker's story of his experiences on the Oregon Trail when it was new, and again when, advanced in years, he retraced the journey of his youth that Americans might ever know where led the footsteps of the pioneers. The publication of this book in its Pioneer Life Series carries forward one of the cherished purposes of World Book Company--to supply as a background to the study of American history interesting and authentic narratives based on the personal experiences of brave men and women who helped to push the frontier of our country across the continent. [Illustration] PLS:MDOTD-5 Copyright 1922 by World Book Company Copyright in Great Britain _All rights reserved_ PRINTED IN U. S. A. AN INTRODUCTION TO THE AUTHOR OUT in the state of Washington recently, a veteran of more than ninety years stepped into an aeroplane with the mail pilot and flew from Seattle to Victoria in British Columbia, and back again. The aged pioneer took the trip with all the zest of youth and returned enthusiastic over the adventure.