02370cam a2200313 4500 562504437 TxAuBib 20220424120000.0 ||||||s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780803253155 080325315X B00H7O8Y5A Amazon 3a725743-261d-41cb-85d1-810f8bd409e6 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1514272 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Vestal, Stanley. Joe Meek [Libby eBook] : The Merry Mountain Man, A Biography. Bison Books, 2013. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 685kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<p>"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."</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p>. Nonfiction. History. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-06-23 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/joe-meek?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/joe-meek?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/joe-meek?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)