Roland Cheek's
Wild Trails
Welcome To
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 baker's 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, utilizing knowledge, logic, and quiet persuasion
Solid advice about the West that was-- AND the West that STILL IS!
Roland shares 50 years of Rocky Mountain experiences to benefit YOU
Learning To Talk Bear is the best book I have ever read, and prepared me for my first grizzly sighting.
- email from Susan Bearer
Cheek is at his best when he's describing bears in action, and at his best, he's excellent * Bob Mottram in Tacoma's The News Tribune
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 * Richard Wheeler / Award-Winning Author
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 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 * Jack Oliver / Pittsburgh, PA
Stories about:
GRIZZLY BEARS * ELK * WILDERNESS ADVENTURE
"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 * Duncan LsSade / Missoula, MT"
Roland Cheek is a born storyteller The Register Herald / Eaton, Ohio
For More About Roland ...
posted weekly * presently months into a year-long series on Roland's secrets to self-publishing success * interrupted occasionally to share exciting outdoors adventures such as howling wolves * grizzly bears * elk * listen to Roland's radio
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