[complete] Eleven years in the Rocky Mountains and a life on the frontier-ag

Kalamareader · Post by **Kalamareader** » July 1st, 2022, 7:58 pm

Chapters 20 and 21 PLOK

Kalamareader · Post by **Kalamareader** » July 1st, 2022, 8:45 pm

Chapters 20 and 21 are PLOK

carolpelster · Post by **carolpelster** » July 2nd, 2022, 12:52 pm

Sections 31, 32, and 33 are added.
Joe Meek was right in the middle of a lot of the most interesting parts of Oregon history.

Kalamareader · Post by **Kalamareader** » July 4th, 2022, 10:13 am

Great reading again. And as I have said before, it is great that someone familiar with the area is doing this so that certain names, such as Couch and Champoeg and others are correctly pronounced

. Also, to find out who certain places, such as Payette, Idaho, are named after.

Chapters 22, 23, 24, 25 and 26 are all PLOK

right out of the box.

As you said, he really was right in the middle of the whole thing. Very interesting.

Wayne

carolpelster · Post by **carolpelster** » July 7th, 2022, 9:42 am

A couple more sections added. I fixed the bad spot in chapter 17. Can you please listen again to the questionable part of Chapter 15? It sounds correct to me.
Thanks.

There is a Joe Meek historical marker near the Hillsboro airport. It says:
This marks the land claim of Joseph L. Meek, famed and unlettered "mountain man," who arrived in 1840 after driving from Fort Hall to Walla Walla in the first wagon on that part of the Oregon Trail. He was a founder of the Provisional Government; served as the first sheriff, the first marshal, the first census taker. He carried word of the Whitman Massacre to Washington D.C., where President Polk, whose wife was his cousin, received him. Named marshal under the New Territorial Government, he accompanied Governor Lane to Oregon. His final Indian fighting was as a soldier in the Yakima War, 1855-56. He died here in 1875. A neighbor called him: "very popular and as brave as Julius Caesar".

Kalamareader · Post by **Kalamareader** » July 7th, 2022, 8:09 pm

carolpelster wrote: ↑July 7th, 2022, 9:42 am A couple more sections added. I fixed the bad spot in chapter 17. Can you please listen again to the questionable part of Chapter 15? It sounds correct to me.
Thanks.

There is a Joe Meek historical marker near the Hillsboro airport. It says:
This marks the land claim of Joseph L. Meek, famed and unlettered "mountain man," who arrived in 1840 after driving from Fort Hall to Walla Walla in the first wagon on that part of the Oregon Trail. He was a founder of the Provisional Government; served as the first sheriff, the first marshal, the first census taker. He carried word of the Whitman Massacre to Washington D.C., where President Polk, whose wife was his cousin, received him. Named marshal under the New Territorial Government, he accompanied Governor Lane to Oregon. His final Indian fighting was as a soldier in the Yakima War, 1855-56. He died here in 1875. A neighbor called him: "very popular and as brave as Julius Caesar".

Chapter 15: The first time I relistened to it, it sounded like "rose", but the next two times it was "rays", so 15 is PLOK

Chapter 17: Correction seamless (of course), so 17 is PLOK

Chapters 27 and 28 are PLOK

right out of the box

Quite the story of Rector and Barlow. Rector seems to have faded off into History, but Barlow, the old, weak man was the one that History remembers

Kalamareader · Post by **Kalamareader** » July 8th, 2022, 9:02 pm

Chapter 29 PLOK

Kalamareader · Post by **Kalamareader** » July 19th, 2022, 11:17 am

I am soooo sorry. I have been out of town for the past couple of weeks for a special project for a company that asked for my assistance (even though I am retired and have been for quite a while). I was planning on starting to catch up with LV today, but got another phone call, and I am going to be out of town till probably Friday of next week. All of this unexpected, but......

I will, I promise, get back to his as soon as I can!!!!

Sorry,

Wayne

Kalamareader · Post by **Kalamareader** » July 22nd, 2022, 7:27 pm

Fortunately I found a little time tonight to do some work.

Chapter 30 is PLOK

right out of the box

In Chapter 31 there was one phrase left out, probably during editing:

14:05 Whether Mr. McBean would have allowed this man to perish is uncertain: but certain it is that some base or cowardly motive made him exceedingly cruel to both Hall and Osborne. You left out Whether Mr. McBean would have allowed this man to perish is uncertain

Interesting history, but I am waiting to get back to Joe.

Wayne

Kalamareader · Post by **Kalamareader** » July 27th, 2022, 5:29 pm

Another great and very listenable rendition.

One small error in Section 32:

16:14 None escaped who had not to mourn You added ‘had’ between ‘None’ and ‘escaped’. Not a huge difference, just a small one, but your call.

Wayne

Kalamareader · Post by **Kalamareader** » August 5th, 2022, 5:55 pm

Carol,

I am sooooo sorry that it has taken me this long, but Chapters 33, 34 and 37 are all PLOK

right out of the box!

Wayne

Kalamareader · Post by **Kalamareader** » August 9th, 2022, 8:55 pm

Chapter 38 is PLOK

carolpelster · Post by **carolpelster** » August 13th, 2022, 8:20 pm

There are still backwoods places in Oregon with very little internet, and that is where I have been. But I found a place with wi-fi, and will try to finish up this project. I am uploading the corrections now. I would like to re-write the book summary in the next few days.

Kalamareader · Post by **Kalamareader** » August 13th, 2022, 10:42 pm

Chapters 31 and 32 PLOK

I am sorry, but it will probably be Tuesday or Wednesday before I can get to your last two Chapters.

Wayne

carolpelster · Post by **carolpelster** » August 16th, 2022, 11:20 am

carolpelster wrote: ↑April 15th, 2022, 6:06 pm Eleven years in the Rocky Mountains and a life on the frontier, by Frances A. Victor (1826 - 1902)

This lively book follows the adventures of mountain man Joe Meek, from his joining the Rocky Mountain Fur Company trapping expedition in the year 1829 at the young age of 18, through his retirement from public life after serving as Marshall of Oregon Territory. Meek had close connections with many famous people of the era, such as Kit Carson, William and Milton Sublette, Jedediah Smith, Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, Dr. John McLaughlin, Oregon’s Governor Lane, and President James Polk. The author’s information came directly from interviews with Joe himself. She adds to his stories by recounting the surrounding events of the times along the way, providing an interesting way to pick up much information about the history of the Rocky Mountain region and the Oregon Territory. Meek was a tremendously colorful personality who traveled all over the wild west, and had numberless adventures. His endurance of hunger, thirst, exhaustion, and danger was legendary. Whether he was encountering bears, Indians, fellow trappers, missionaries, California gold miners, and even the president of the United States, he tells the story with humor and aplomb. Meek was always lively, often drunk, sometimes heroic, and certainly no saint.
(Summary by Carol Pelster)
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