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Slick as a Mitten: Ezra Meeker's Klondike Enterprise

Dennis M. Larsen

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Description:After braving the Oregon Trail in 1852, Ezra Meeker built a fortune in hop farming and brokering in the Puget Sound country. He platted Puyallup, serving as the town’s first mayor and key businessman. Then suddenly in the 1890s, a devastating scourge of aphids followed by a national economic depression, swept his assets away, “slick as a mitten.” Nevertheless, when Meeker’s Puyallup bank teetered on failure, he rescued friends and neighbors by tapping into his own diminishing capital to return funds to depositors.The gold stampede of 1898 held renewed prospects for the financially ruined. Despite his advanced age, the daring pioneer ventured to the treacherous Klondike four times, transporting and selling 100 tons of vegetables, potatoes, dried foods, and canned goods in miners’ camps and at hastily built inns and restaurants. The arduous hauling of freight at the height of the gold rush required wagons, packhorses, human backs, scows, and dog teams. Meanwhile, wife Eliza Jane remained in Puyallup overseeing the manufacture of canned foods, granulated eggs, and dehydrated vegetables for Ezra’s “Log Cabin Grocery” in Dawson City.Ezra was joined in the north by six family members, including an infant grandson, Wilfred, who accompanied him to the Yukon in 1900. Three years of letters, most from Ezra to his beloved Eliza Jane, relate the details of his risky schemes, keen insights, and intriguing—from business and mining pursuits, to keeping warm through sub-arctic winters, to the burying of a son in a Dawson cemetery. Slick as a Mitten adds a new voice to the history of the Klondike.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Slick as a Mitten: Ezra Meeker's Klondike Enterprise. To get started finding Slick as a Mitten: Ezra Meeker's Klondike Enterprise, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: After braving the Oregon Trail in 1852, Ezra Meeker built a fortune in hop farming and brokering in the Puget Sound country. He platted Puyallup, serving as the town’s first mayor and key businessman. Then suddenly in the 1890s, a devastating scourge of aphids followed by a national economic depression, swept his assets away, “slick as a mitten.” Nevertheless, when Meeker’s Puyallup bank teetered on failure, he rescued friends and neighbors by tapping into his own diminishing capital to return funds to depositors.The gold stampede of 1898 held renewed prospects for the financially ruined. Despite his advanced age, the daring pioneer ventured to the treacherous Klondike four times, transporting and selling 100 tons of vegetables, potatoes, dried foods, and canned goods in miners’ camps and at hastily built inns and restaurants. The arduous hauling of freight at the height of the gold rush required wagons, packhorses, human backs, scows, and dog teams. Meanwhile, wife Eliza Jane remained in Puyallup overseeing the manufacture of canned foods, granulated eggs, and dehydrated vegetables for Ezra’s “Log Cabin Grocery” in Dawson City.Ezra was joined in the north by six family members, including an infant grandson, Wilfred, who accompanied him to the Yukon in 1900. Three years of letters, most from Ezra to his beloved Eliza Jane, relate the details of his risky schemes, keen insights, and intriguing—from business and mining pursuits, to keeping warm through sub-arctic winters, to the burying of a son in a Dawson cemetery. Slick as a Mitten adds a new voice to the history of the Klondike.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Slick as a Mitten: Ezra Meeker's Klondike Enterprise. To get started finding Slick as a Mitten: Ezra Meeker's Klondike Enterprise, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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