Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1907 — Prairie Schooner on Broadway. [ARTICLE]

Prairie Schooner on Broadway.

New York City recently witnessed the novel spectacle of an old-fashioned prairie schooner drawn by a yoke of oxen passing down Broadway. This outfit was the property of Ezra Meeker, who had come all the way from Puyallup in the State of Washington, traversing the old Oregon trail, over which he went to the Pacific coast in 1856, from his home in Ohio. Mr. Meeker’s purpose in making the trip east is to arouse public sentiment in favor of a bill which he will have introduced in Congress at its next session, to build a permanent concrete road along the route of the old trail in commemoration of the pioneers who constituted the advance guard to the West. It is his intention to go to Oyster Bay to see the President, and will afterwards proceed to Washington.