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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from Pioneer Reminiscences of Puget Sound: The Tragedy of Leschi, An Account of the Coming of the First Americans and the Establishment of Their Institutions, Their Encounters With the Native Race, The First Treaties, With the Indians and the War That FollowedA Mighty Flood - The Lost Island - Hand Logging - Jane Nearly Became a Widow Before Breakfast - Floating on the Raft - Oak Point - Astoria - The Early Garden - The Potato Eyes - T...

The Oregon Trail-what suggestion the name carries of the heroic toil of pioneers! Yet a few years' ago the route of the trail was only vaguely known. Then public interest was awakened by the report that one of the very men who had made the trip to Oregon in the old days was traversing the trail once more, moving with ox team and covered wagon from his home in the state of Washington, and marking the old route as he went. The man with the ox te...

Excerpt from Ox-Team Days on the Oregon TrailAn old prairie schooner was rebuilt, and a yoke of sturdy oxen was trained to make the trip. With one com panion and a faithful dog, the veteran Started out. It took nearly two years, but the ox-team journey from Washington, the state, to Washington, our national capital, was finally accomplished.The chief purpose of Mr. Meeker in this enterprise was to induce people to mark the famous old highway. ...

Excerpt from Uncle Ezra's: Short Stories for ChildrenThen came the brutal murders of prisoners, right in the Governor's office at Olympia, and no one punished.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the...

Excerpt from The Ox Team: Or the Old Oregon Trail, 1852-1906The great Mississippi river was crossed at Bur lingtou, or rather, we embarked several miles down the river, and were carried up to the landing at Burlington. And after a few days' further driving landed in Eddyville, Iowa, destined to be only a place to winter, and a way station on our route to Oregon.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and clas...

Excerpt from Hop Culture in the United States: Being a Practical Treatise on Hop Growing in Washington Territory, From the Cutting to the BaleThe high value of hops prevailing for the past four years, culminating in the unprecedented price of one dollar per pound for the crop of 1882, has naturally attracted a wide-spread interest. An article that can be produced in large quantities, and sold for nearly ten-fold its cost, engenders a speculati...

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Excerpt from The Busy Life of Eighty-Five Years of Ezra Meeker: Ventures and Adventures 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 narra...