The Walker Place

Ezra Meeker, the Puyallup pioneer of Oregon Trail fame, no doubt lived a long and adventurous life. Just read any of the books Meeker wrote and he’ll tell you so. They are books written by Ezra Meeker, about Ezra Meeker with embellishments abound.

The Road to Midland

During the first week of October 1851, Ezra Meeker and his wife Eliza Jane Meeker moved from their …Read More

Oliver Perry Meeker

During the winter of 1851 near Indianapolis, twenty-four-year-old Oliver Perry Meeker and a group of friends and neighbors …Read More

Ezra Meeker’s Biggest Blunder

In March 1889 Ezra Meeker committed one of his biggest blunders ever, he was caught and admitted to bribing Puyallup Indians with money for their vote to approve a right of way through the Puyallup Indian Reservation.