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English: Oregon Trail pioneer Ezra Meeker erected this marker at South Pass, Wyo., (elevation 7,550 ft) as he retraced the trail by covered wagon in 1906. Meeker countered the historical pioneer route in his 1906 reenactment by trekking west to east. A newspaper report in 1915 noted that Meeker claimed he traveled 84 miles out of his way to find the boulder pictured here. If true, that would have been a remarkable detour.
Meeker first traveled the Oregon Trail as an emigrant with his wife, Eliza Jane and an infant son in 1852. Meeker sought to spur national interest in the historic trail. He imagined constructing a commemorative transcontinental highway alongside the route of the old trail, according to a 1907 Ohio State Journal article. Photo by: Randy C. Bunney, circa 1993. Red Desert, Wyoming References
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| Date | 3 December 2006 (original upload date) |
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- 2006-12-03 18:05 Fishdecoy 664×963× (1038694 bytes) ==Summary== [[Oregon Trail]] marker at [[South Pass]], Wyo., erected by [[Ezra Meeker]] as he retraced the trail by covered wagon in 1906, countering the historical pioneer route by trekking west to east. A newspaper report in 1915 noted that Meeker trave
- 2006-12-03 17:48 Fishdecoy 664×963× (1038748 bytes) ==Summary== [[Oregon Trail]] marker at South Pass, Wyo., erected by [[Ezra Meeker]] as he retraced the trail by covered wagon in 1906, countering the historical pioneer route by trekking west to east. Meeker first traveled the trail as an emigrant with hi
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