WILD & FREE, Stories by Frank Cooke as Told to Jack Boudreau (2004 1st Ed.)
Author: Frank Cooke as Told to Jack Boudreau. Published by Caitlan Press, Prince George, BC., 2004, 1st Edition. Printed in Canada. Like New Condition SOFTCOVER Book. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 9 x 6 inch, 273 pages includes index. WILD & FREE, Stories by Frank Cooke as Told to Jack Boudreau, is back with another wild and wooly, scarcely believable but nevertheless collection of true tales of misadventure in British Columbia's northern wilderness. Wild and Free, which Boudreau says is his best book yet, tells the stories of two of Canada's most legendary mountain men -- Skook Davidson (who actually has a mountain named after him) and Frank Cooke. Readers of Edward Hoagland's 1966 classic, Notes from the Century Before, will remember Skook Davidson as the "cranky old man, crippled up with arthritis, cussing into his radio, who gives a report on his wolves instead of his weather, and throws the cork into the creek when he opens a bottle of whiskey so there won't be a way of stopping the fun." In Wild and Free the fun rolls on as author Boudreau falls in with Davidson's long-time protege, Frank Cooke, (now 77) and together they reconstruct the old buzzard's memorable life. For more info on this Author, please see: Jack Boudreau, B.C.'s northern backwoods chronicler | CBC News ISBN: 97801894759044 GC&C Stock #5270