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148 Ohio Arch

148     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.