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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 out of his way.

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.

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Washington State Historical Society
Ohio State Journal, 1907.
Evening Post (Seattle), 1915 reprinted "Story of the Lost Trail to Oregon. Ye Galleon Press, 1984.

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current	18:05, 3 December 2006	664×963 (1,014 KB)	Fishdecoy (Talk \| contribs)	(==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)
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