The Oregon Trail—what suggestion thename carries of the heroic toil of pioneers!Yet a few years' ago the route of the trailwas only vaguely known. Then publicinterest was awakened by the report thatone of the very men who had made thetrip to Oregon in the old days was traversingthe trail once more, moving withox team and covered wagon from his homein the state of Washington, and markingthe old route as he went. The man withthe ox team was Ezra Meeker. He wenton to the capital, where Mr. Roosevelt,then President, met him with joy. Thenhe traversed the long trail once more withteam and wagon—back to that Northwestwhich he had so long made his home.This book gives Mr. Meeker's story of hisexperiences on the Oregon Trail when itwas new, and again when, advanced inyears, he retraced the journey of his youththat Americans might ever know whereled the footsteps of the pioneers. Thepublication of this book in its Pioneer LifeSeries carries forward one of the cherishedpurposes of World Book Company—tosupply as a background to the study ofAmerican history interesting and authenticnarratives based on the personal experiencesof brave men and women whohelped to push the frontier of our countryacross the continent