Our mission is to restore and maintain Ezra Meeker's Home and bring awareness of the pioneering of Puyallup by archiving it. Suggested Reading By Ezra Meeker Washington Territory West of the Cascade Mountains, Containing a Description of Puget Sound and Rivers Emptying into it (1870) First such book printed in Washington Territory Hop culture in the United States being a practical treatise on h
op growing in Washington territory, from cutting to the bale (1883) Pioneer Reminiscences on Puget Sound, The Tragedy of Leschi (1905) (reprinted recently as two separate books) The Ox Team or the Old Oregon Trail, 1852-1906 (1906), about 6 reprintings. The most readable for young people is the so-called Driggs edition, published in 1925 in collaboration with Howard Driggs as Ox Team Days on the Oregon Trail. Ventures and Adventures (1910) Uncle Ezra’s Short Stories for Children (1912) A Busy Life of 85 Years (1915) Seventy Years of Progress in Washington (1921) About Ezra Meeker Larsen, Dennis M., The Missing Chapters, The Untold Story of Ezra Meeker's Old Oregon Trail Monument Expedition January 1906 to July 1908, Ezra Meeker Historical Society, 2006 Larsen, Dennis M, Slick as a Mitten, Ezra Meeker's Klondike Enterprise, WSU Press, 2009
Larsen, Dennis M. Ezra Meeker, A brief resume of his life and adventures, Puyallup Historical Society at Meeker Mansion, 2013
Other valuable sources Oregon Trail Unruh, The Plains Across; the Overland Emigrants and the Trans-Mississippi West 1840-1860, U of Illinois, 1993 Pierce County
Price, Lori and Ruth Anderson, Puyallup a Pioneer Paradise, Arcadia, 2003
Anderson, Ruth, Legendary Locals of the Puyallup Valley, Arcadia, 2013
Bonney, History of Pierce County, Washington, Pioneer Historical Publishing Company, 1927, reprinted by the Pierce County Genealogical Society Morgan, Murray, Puget’s Sound, A Narrative of Early Tacoma and the South Sound, U of Washington, 1981 Ripley, Thomas Emerson, Green Timber, On the Flood Tide to Fortune in the Great Northwest, American West Publishing, 1968 Books for young readers
Erickson, Paul, Daily Life in a Covered Wagon, Penguin, 199? Sullivan, Susan Templeton, Bentley's Tale of the Oregon Trail, Peanut Butter Publishing, Seattle, 1999 Olson, Todd, How to Get Rich on the Oregon Trail, My Adventures among Cows, Crooks and Heroes on the Road to Fame and Fortune, National Geographic, 2009 Online Resources www.historicoregoncity.org/end-of-the-oregon-trail-history/oregon-trail-history www.america101.us/trail/Oregontrail.html edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/oregon-trail
