The Busy Life of Eighty-Five Years of Ezra Meeker Ventures and adventures: sixty-three years of pioneer life in the old Oregon country: an account of the author's trip across the plains with an ox team: return trip, 1906-7: his cruise on Puget Sound, 1853: trip through the Natchess pass, 1854: over the Chilcoot pass: flat-boating on the Yukon, 1898. The Oregon trail.