The Busy Life of Eighty-Five Years of Ezra Meeker / Ventures and adventures; sixty-three years of pioneer life in the old Oregon country; an account of the author's trip across the plains with an ox team; return trip, 1906-7; his cruise on Puget Sound, 1853; trip through the Natchess pass, 1854; over the Chilcoot pass; flat-boating on the Yukon, 1898. The Oregon trail.

by Ezra Meeker

For over them flew the Red, White and Blue

And the dream of a star for the flag!

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A cheer for the men who cut the trail!

With souls as firm as steel

And fiery as wrath they hewed the path

For the coming Commonweal.

And close on the heels of the pioneers

The eager throng closed in

And followed the road to a far abode.