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On 20 June 1875 came the death of a man who, perhaps more than any other, embodied the gutsy, rugged pioneer spirit of the Old West. Described by one early writer as “a harum-scarum, don’t care sort of man”, he was a fighter and a survivor, a veteran of grizzly bear attacks and a teller of tall tales, and a man who eventually transformed ...
In 1829, at the age of 19, he signed on with William Sublette as a Rocky Mountain Fur Company trapper, and for the next eleven years, he lived the strenuous life of a mountain man. The young man soon traveled with a trapping party along the Yellowstone River when a band of Blackfeet Indians scattered the trappers.
This is the story of Joe Meek and his years as a mountainman. Meek came west in 1828 as an employee of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, and spent the next twelve years engaged in the fur trade. He worked for the various fur companies and later became a free trapper.
Jan 31, 2018 · 9.23K subscribers. Subscribed. 55. 4K views 5 years ago. Fur trapper, mountain man, and Oregon pioneer Joseph L. Meek played an important role in the early history of the Oregon Territory...
Joseph Lafayette Meek was an American pioneer, mountain man, law enforcement official, and politician in the Oregon Country and later Oregon Territory of the United States. A trapper involved in the fur trade before settling in the Tualatin Valley, Meek played a prominent role at the Champoeg Meetings of 1843, where he was elected a sheriff.
One of this list who can never be lost sight of for his fearlessness, courage and good words and humor is Joseph L. Meek, a mountain man and first Sheriff of the Provisional Government of old Oregon: Joseph L. Meek was born in Washington County, Virginia, in 1810, one year before the settlement of Astoria, and at the period.
Jun 13, 2021 · Mountain man Joe Meek first entered the Oregon Country in 1829, along with William Craig and Robert Newell. He met Marcus and Narcissa Whitman at the 1836 fur trapper’s rendezvous on their way to Walla Walla. Meek settled in the Willamette Valley but left his daughter, Helen Mar, with the Whitmans.
