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Ohio Arch. and Hist. Society Publications.
Mr. Meeker is the author of a number of
books.
The list, according to information at
hand, is as follows:
Washington Territory West of the
Cascade Mountains,
1870; Hop Growing in the United States,
1883; Pio-
neer Reminiscences of Puget Sound,
1905; The Tragedy
of Leschi, 1906; The Oregon Trail,
1907; Uncle Ezra's
Pioneer Stories for Children, 1916;
Eighty-five Years
of a Busy Life, 1916; Seventy Years of
Progress in
Washington, 1921; Ox-Team Days on the
Oregon Trail,
1925; Kate Mulhall; a Romance of the
Oregon Trail,
1926.
Ezra Meeker was born in Ohio; is proud
of his
native state, and is the most noted
pioneer living in the
United States today.
CONFERENCE OF HISTORICAL AGENCIES IN
THE
UPPER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY
MINUTES OF A MEETING AT ROCHESTER, NEW
YORK,
ON DECEMBER 29, 1926
The meeting was attended by Messrs.
Shambaugh
and Mahan of the State Historical
Society of Iowa;
Schafer of the State Historical Society
of Wisconsin;
Pease of the Illinois Historical
Survey; Coleman on be-
half of the Indiana State Library; Buck
and Blegen of
the Minnesota Historical Society; and
Mereness, the
archivist of the Conference.
It was agreed that a calendar of
manuscript maps
relating to the Northwest in map
collections in the
Washington archives, exclusive of the
Library of Con-
gress, should be undertaken as a part
of the regular
calendaring work.