Jakey's Fork

Product Description    "There is no other place like it in thecountry."   So begins Richard Little's latest collection ofstories from the road from high in the Rockies. Rivers, blue traceries on a map, are pathways ofhistory. What are their legacies? Hang out with Butch Cassidy, Sitting Bull,Teddy Roosevelt, and others to find out ... and consider legacies we mightleave to others.  From the Back Cover             Buckleyour seatbelt, sit back, and enjoy Richard Little's delightful traveloguefollowing the course of a small creek called Jakey's Fork. Fortunately for hisreaders, Little accomplishes his hope that, on this journey through theAmerican West, he'd "find the sense of place, not just the place." And we do,too, through his careful research, skillful storytelling, descriptions of geography,historical and cultural overviews, and a dash of humor. I might not ever get toJakey's Fork, but now I feel as though I've been there.            Iris Graville, author, Hiking Naked: A Quaker Woman's Search forBalance.              RichardLittle's "riverine fantasy" takes us from tiny Jakey's Fork to the mighty Missouriwith meanders into history, etymology and even paleontology. Sharp socialobservation and engaging historical anecdotes inform this eminently readableroad trip memoir and the vivid texture of the American West.            MarianExall, author of A Splintered Step andothers in the Sarah McKinney mystery series. About the Author             Retired attorney and lobbyist Richard Little lives and writes in the Pacific Northwest. His work has been published in the Seattle Times, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the Santa Fe Writers Project, Cirque Literary Journal, and Clover, A Literary Rag. He has also published two collections of short stories, Postcards from the Road and Jakey'sFork - A River's Journey; plus, a just-released novel, City Haul. Other writing can be found on his blog,"The Write Stuff," at pepys2000.blogspot.com.