Mountainman Meek
"The most adventurous figure in the history of the 'Oregon country' is Colonel Joe Meek, Virginian, 'squaw man' and first marshal of Oregon. He was a frontiersman of the highest type." The Pacific Monthly 1905
Known by the Crow Indians as "Shiam-shaspusia" meaning "biggest liar of all," Joe Meek (1810 –1875) was a trapper, mountain man, and politician in the Oregon Country and later Oregon Territory of the United States.
In 1912, famous adventure writer Edwin Sabin published an interesting 15-page article about Oregon's most famous mountain man, Joe Meek, which appeared April 1912 edition of Recreation Magazine [vol. xxxv, April 1912, no. 4., p.163]. It is this article that has been republished here for the convenience of the interested reader.
In introducing Meek, Sabin describes him as "the harum-scarum of the beaver trail and camp; runaway youth, mountain trapper, rendezvous reprobate who as Oregon settler prayed half an hour for a cow, next 'Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Washington'; a man who never lacked for a tale nor an audience, and who supplemented his sheer gall with reckless nerve."
Joe Meek was born in Washington County, Virginia, United States, near the Cumberland Gap on February 9, 1810. At the age of 18 he joined William Sublette and the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, and roamed the Rocky Mountains for over a decade as a fur trapper. In about 1829, the nineteen-year-old Meek traveled with a trapping party along the Yellowstone River. A band of Blackfoot scattered the trappers, leaving Meek to travel into what is today Yellowstone National Park.
About the author:
Edwin Legrand Sabin (1870 –1952) was an American author, primarily of adventure stories, mostly set in the American West. Sabin's most notable book is Kit Carson Days, the first seriously researched biography of the frontiersman Kit Carson. It was widely praised by critics and considered a standard work on the subject.
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Known by the Crow Indians as "Shiam-shaspusia" meaning "biggest liar of all," Joe Meek (1810 –1875) was a trapper, mountain man, and politician in the Oregon Country and later Oregon Territory of the United States.
In 1912, famous adventure writer Edwin Sabin published an interesting 15-page article about Oregon's most famous mountain man, Joe Meek, which appeared April 1912 edition of Recreation Magazine [vol. xxxv, April 1912, no. 4., p.163]. It is this article that has been republished here for the convenience of the interested reader.
In introducing Meek, Sabin describes him as "the harum-scarum of the beaver trail and camp; runaway youth, mountain trapper, rendezvous reprobate who as Oregon settler prayed half an hour for a cow, next 'Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Washington'; a man who never lacked for a tale nor an audience, and who supplemented his sheer gall with reckless nerve."
Joe Meek was born in Washington County, Virginia, United States, near the Cumberland Gap on February 9, 1810. At the age of 18 he joined William Sublette and the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, and roamed the Rocky Mountains for over a decade as a fur trapper. In about 1829, the nineteen-year-old Meek traveled with a trapping party along the Yellowstone River. A band of Blackfoot scattered the trappers, leaving Meek to travel into what is today Yellowstone National Park.
About the author:
Edwin Legrand Sabin (1870 –1952) was an American author, primarily of adventure stories, mostly set in the American West. Sabin's most notable book is Kit Carson Days, the first seriously researched biography of the frontiersman Kit Carson. It was widely praised by critics and considered a standard work on the subject.
Mountainman Meek
"The most adventurous figure in the history of the 'Oregon country' is Colonel Joe Meek, Virginian, 'squaw man' and first marshal of Oregon. He was a frontiersman of the highest type." The Pacific Monthly 1905
Known by the Crow Indians as "Shiam-shaspusia" meaning "biggest liar of all," Joe Meek (1810 –1875) was a trapper, mountain man, and politician in the Oregon Country and later Oregon Territory of the United States.
In 1912, famous adventure writer Edwin Sabin published an interesting 15-page article about Oregon's most famous mountain man, Joe Meek, which appeared April 1912 edition of Recreation Magazine [vol. xxxv, April 1912, no. 4., p.163]. It is this article that has been republished here for the convenience of the interested reader.
In introducing Meek, Sabin describes him as "the harum-scarum of the beaver trail and camp; runaway youth, mountain trapper, rendezvous reprobate who as Oregon settler prayed half an hour for a cow, next 'Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Washington'; a man who never lacked for a tale nor an audience, and who supplemented his sheer gall with reckless nerve."
Joe Meek was born in Washington County, Virginia, United States, near the Cumberland Gap on February 9, 1810. At the age of 18 he joined William Sublette and the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, and roamed the Rocky Mountains for over a decade as a fur trapper. In about 1829, the nineteen-year-old Meek traveled with a trapping party along the Yellowstone River. A band of Blackfoot scattered the trappers, leaving Meek to travel into what is today Yellowstone National Park.
About the author:
Edwin Legrand Sabin (1870 –1952) was an American author, primarily of adventure stories, mostly set in the American West. Sabin's most notable book is Kit Carson Days, the first seriously researched biography of the frontiersman Kit Carson. It was widely praised by critics and considered a standard work on the subject.
Known by the Crow Indians as "Shiam-shaspusia" meaning "biggest liar of all," Joe Meek (1810 –1875) was a trapper, mountain man, and politician in the Oregon Country and later Oregon Territory of the United States.
In 1912, famous adventure writer Edwin Sabin published an interesting 15-page article about Oregon's most famous mountain man, Joe Meek, which appeared April 1912 edition of Recreation Magazine [vol. xxxv, April 1912, no. 4., p.163]. It is this article that has been republished here for the convenience of the interested reader.
In introducing Meek, Sabin describes him as "the harum-scarum of the beaver trail and camp; runaway youth, mountain trapper, rendezvous reprobate who as Oregon settler prayed half an hour for a cow, next 'Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Washington'; a man who never lacked for a tale nor an audience, and who supplemented his sheer gall with reckless nerve."
Joe Meek was born in Washington County, Virginia, United States, near the Cumberland Gap on February 9, 1810. At the age of 18 he joined William Sublette and the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, and roamed the Rocky Mountains for over a decade as a fur trapper. In about 1829, the nineteen-year-old Meek traveled with a trapping party along the Yellowstone River. A band of Blackfoot scattered the trappers, leaving Meek to travel into what is today Yellowstone National Park.
About the author:
Edwin Legrand Sabin (1870 –1952) was an American author, primarily of adventure stories, mostly set in the American West. Sabin's most notable book is Kit Carson Days, the first seriously researched biography of the frontiersman Kit Carson. It was widely praised by critics and considered a standard work on the subject.
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| BN ID: | 2940186620518 |
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| Publisher: | Far West Travel Adventure |
| Publication date: | 07/30/2022 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 406 KB |
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