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OREGON
TRAIL
MONUMENT EXPEDITION
DANDY
EZRA
MEEKER
do BRECON THAN 1852 1910
1911.
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PUBLISHED BY EZRA MEEKER, SEATTLE, WASH. MADE IN U. S. A.
seating for. Spokane
Irishs Business
OLD OREGON TRAIL 1852 1910
#800
OREGON TRAIL
MONUMENT EXPEDITION
SO AM
Fifth anniversary Souvenir Card of the Oregon
Trail Monument Expedition; left Puyallup Wash-
ington on January 29, 1906; erected 27 monuments,
inscribed seventeen boulders, and otherwise marked
the Trail on the way; arrived at Missouri River
crossing, Oct. 9th; thence drove to Washington
City; arrived Nov. 29, 1907; interviewed President
Roosevelt; procured introduction of bill in Congress
appropriating $50,000. to complete the work; expe-
dition returned home 1908; second trip made 1910;
trail located, platted, cost of monumenting esti-
mated; now enroute to Washington City; will there
report findings to Congress; estimated number of
monuments 700; cost $85,000; is forerunner of greater
monument to be known as Pioneer Way 2200 miles
along the Oregon Trail; distance driven 8500 miles.
Ages: Ezra Meeker 80 years; Mardon 36; Jim 7;
Dave 10; Dandy 10; Wagon (in part) 60. Reader,
write your Congressman to favor this work; ad vo-
cate it in the home; the church; lecture halls;
streets; its a great work to thus record history,
honor the memories of the Winners of the farther
west and build up patriotism in the breasts of count-
less generations to follow. Dayton, Ohio. Jan. 29th,
1911.
Miss H. E. Drish
Down Cily,
Dowa
Trish's U.B.C.
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