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Joe Meek - The Merry Mountain Man, A Biography (Paperback)
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Joe Meek - The Merry Mountain Man, A Biography (Paperback)
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List price R535
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Discovery Miles 4 560
You Save R79 (15%)
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"A tall man, with long black hair, smooth face, dark eyes
(inclining to turn his head a little to one side, as much as to
say, 'I can tell you about it'), a harum-scarum, don't-care sort of
man, full of life and fun." That's how a contemporary described Joe
Meek." Born in Virginia, Joe Meek became a trapper, Indian fighter,
pioneer, peace officer, frontier politician, and lover of practical
jokes and Jacksonian democracy. He was a boon companion to two
other larger-than-life mountain men, Kit Carson and Jim Bridger,
and just as important in frontier history. In 1829, our
nineteen-year-old hero joined the Rocky Mountain Fur Company of
Jedediah Smith and the Sublettes and headed west on an odyssey of
hair-raising high adventure and hilarious low comedy. For the next
twelve years, the Rockies rang with tales of Joe's wild exploits.
After the Last Rendezvous in 1840, he helped drive the first wagons
to Oregon, served in the legislature of the provisional government,
and went to Washington as a special envoy to President Polk. He
later returned to Oregon to live out his days in the community that
he helped build. Stanley Vestal (1887-1957) wrote more than twenty
books, including Jim Bridger: Mountain Man, also available as a
Bison Book.
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