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The River of the West: The Mountain Years: The Adventures of Joe Meek
The River of the West The Mountain Years The Adventures of Joe Meek Author:Win Blevins, Frances Fuller Victor Joe Meek was one of the West's most irresistible characters. An early mountain man, he was dashing, devil-may-care, cheeky, irreverent, and more fun than a playful grizzly cub.In Book One, we read about his early life adventuring in the Rocky Mountains, California, and the Southwest. His first-hand account of fur-traders is priceless, as are h... more »is descriptions of the country, mountains, and the life of a mountain man.Meek comes down to us not as a myth but as 'simply a right kind of fella.' It is our good luck that Joe knew how to yarn his mountain experiences truly and colorfully and with only a mite of stretching. Joe Meek tells his own story, straight up and in the raw. He?s one wild ride!« less