Roland Cheek's
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Roland and Buck
The world, it seems, persists in a cracked view of The West. First it was fantasized "pulp" heroes riding into town to clean out a nest of gunslingers terrorizing the land; now it's the equally tragic Manhattan view that nothing worthwhile exists west of the Hudson. Some authentic western writer should tell the truth.
Who better than a guy who covered over 35,000 wilderness miles on horseback; who hosted a coast-to-coast outdoors radio show, crafted an outdoors newspaper column for 21 years, created hundreds of magazine pieces, and crafted a dozen fiction and nonfiction books set in The West.
Via the same storytelling techniques he developed so successfully around campfires, and polished in print and radio for decades: knowledge, logic, and quiet persuasion
Solid advice about the West that was-- AND the West that STILL IS!
Trails to Outdoor Adventure Radio
Roland Shares! Your Future Adventures Can Benefit From His Learning Curve!
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- Jack Oliver / Pittsdburgh, PA
- Richard Wheeler / Award-Winning Western Author
- Duncan LaSade / Missoula, MT
Learning To Talk Bear is the best book I have ever read, and prepared me for my first grizzly sighting.
- email from Sisan Bearer
Cheek is at his best when he's describing bears in action, and at his best, he's excellent.
Like Louis L'Amour, Roland Cheek knows how to start a story at a gallop and hold the reader to the last page. He writes richly and authentically about the Old West, drawing from an encyclopedic knowledge of his subject
I knew you were a good writer, but I never before put you in the class of Michener and Clancy. You spin a good yarn [Echoes of Vengeance] and don't let it drop for a minute. You handle dialogue extremely well, and the action scenes are outstanding. You have no reason to venture so carefully into the world of novelists.
Chocolate Legs is a superb book capturing the essence of a single wild animal. It will reside on my bookshelf alongside the best of Will James or Farley Mowat
- Bob Mottram in Tacoma's The News Tribune
Roland Cheek is a born storyteller
- The Register Herald / Eaton, Ohio
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