Slick as a mitten : Ezra Meeker's Klondike enterprise / Dennis M. Larsen.

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 na...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Larsen, Dennis M., 1946-
Language:English
Published: Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University Press, [2009], ©2009.
Subjects:
Meeker, Ezra, > 1830-1928 > Correspondence.
Meeker family.
Klondike River Valley (Yukon) > Gold discoveries.
Merchants > Yukon > Dawson > Correspondence.
Merchants > Yukon > Dawson > Biography.
Frontier and pioneer life > Yukon > Klondike River Valley.
Dawson (Yukon) > History > 19th century.
Genre:
Correspondence.
Biography.
Physical Description:[vii], 128 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm
Variant Title:
Ezra Meeker's Klondike enterprise.
Format: Book

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