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Slick as a mitten : Ezra Meeker's Klondike enterprise / Dennis M. Larsen.
- Title
- Slick as a mitten : Ezra Meeker's Klondike enterprise / Dennis M. Larsen.
- Author
- Larsen, Dennis M., 1946-
- Publication
- Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University Press, c2009.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | F1095.K5 L36 2009 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 128 p. : ill., maps; 28 cm.
- Summary
- Ezra Meeker braved the Oregon Trail in 1852, eventually becoming a hop farmer and broker. He platted the town of Puyallup, Washington and served as its first mayor. By the 1880s he had built a fortune and a mansion. But in 1892, a scourge of aphids devastated the hop harvest, followed by a severe national economic depression, sweeping his assets away, "slick as a mitten." During the gold rush, Meeker ventured to the treacherous Klondike four times, transporting and selling 100 tons of groceries to Yukon gold miners. His wife, who remained closer to home, managed the food-drying and canning operation, manufacturing granulated eggs and dehydrated soup vegetables. Three years of letters, most from Ezra to his beloved Eliza Jane, relate the details of his risky schemes and intriguing experiences, from business and mining pursuits to family relationships.-- Publisher.
- Alternative Title
- Ezra Meeker's Klondike enterprise
- Subjects
- Biographies
- Records and correspondence
- History
- Dawson (Yukon) > History > 19th century
- Frontier and pioneer life > Yukon > Klondike River Valley
- Merchants > Yukon > Dawson > Biography
- Merchants > Yukon > Dawson > Correspondence
- Klondike River Valley (Yukon) > Gold discoveries
- Meeker family
- Meeker, Ezra, 1830-1928 > Correspondence
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Records and correspondence
- History
- Records and correspondence.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 123) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Beginnings, 1890-1897 -- Over the Chilikoot Trail, 1898 -- Second trip to Dawson City, 1898 -- The Meeker mine, 1899 -- A family affair, 1900 -- Wintering over, 1900 -- Endings, 1901 -- Postscript.
- The Meeker family -- Alaska gold and homing pigeons : Meeker boys get their feet wet at Cook Inlet, 1896 -- Klondike gold rush timeline -- Northwest [gold] stampeders -- Ezra Meeker's Klondike mine -- Stocking the Log Cabin Grocery.
- ISBN
- 9780874223026 (acid-free paper)
- 0874223024 (acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2009016160
- OCLC
- 298513354
- SCSB-11867455
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library