From Roland's Bookstore
The Phantom Ghost of Harriet Lou
In the beginning there was heaven and
earth; and the earth was without form and void and little tow-headed boys wandered around
barefoot, with hands in their pockets because
there was nothing upon the land to catch their
imagination. And God looked upon His work and saw it was not yet good that no thing existed
to challenge those boys. And so an autumn came to pass when eerie whistling drifted into
the valleys from distant mountainsides and the by then lanky teenage boys threw away their
toys and accepted the wapiti challenge that would make them men! And God and girls saw that it was good.
If you've heard a different version of this
story, that's your problem. I heard it but once --
this way. And so I became an elk hunter. Then I became infatuated with all God's creatures, and eventually a believer that God's handiwork
is composed of such intracacies that a quest to understand has taken the rest of my life.
The Phantom Ghost of Harriet Lou is about that quest.
5-1/2 X 8-1/2 12-point cover 352 page $21.95
The story of Roland's & Jane's growth as a team in love & life during
their years guiding others to adventure amid some of wildest
lands in all the Northern Rocky Mountains.
I have just finished The Phantom Ghost of Harriet
Lou. Wow! It was wonderful! I was transported from my
stateroom aboard a destroyer to the wilderness I traveled as
a teenager. Your tales were well told, enlightening and
dead on the money.
Undeterred by the seemingly universal publishing world's disinterest in his
first book, Roland made the New York rounds with The Phantom Ghost of Harriet Lou.
"Who cares about elk?" he was told. "Indeed?" he replied. "How
about the million hunters who bought elk licenses the previous year?" So, he and
Jane published the elk book, too. The Phantom Ghost of Harriet
Lou is now in its 3rd printing. Once again Roland and Jane rubbed their hands in glee.
Tales of the West that Was
and the West that Is
- and other elk stories
- Joel Stewart / USS Fife Dd991
(or send check or money order for $21.95 to Roland Cheek, P.O. Box 1118, Columbia Falls, MT 59912)
