Busy Life of Eighty-Five Years of Ezra Meeker

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Just why I should write a preface I know not, except that it is fashionable to do so, and yet in the present case there would seem a little explanation due the reader, who may cast his eye on the first chapter of this work. Indeed, the chapter, Early Days in Indiana, may properly be termed an introduction, though quite inti mately connected with the narrative that follows, yet not necessary to make a completed story of the trip to Oregon in the early fifties.