{"product_id":"wild-free-stories-by-frank-cooke-as-told-to-jack-boudreau-2004-1st-ed","title":"WILD \u0026 FREE, Stories by Frank Cooke as Told to Jack Boudreau (2004 1st Ed.)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eAuthor: 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.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 42, 0);\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eWILD \u0026amp; 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.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWild and Free\u003c\/span\u003e, 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, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNotes from the Century Before\u003c\/span\u003e, 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 \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWild and Free\u003c\/span\u003e 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eFor more info on this Author, please see: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/british-columbia\/jack-boudreau-northern-bc-backwoods-1.4501926\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(43, 0, 255);\"\u003eJack Boudreau, B.C.'s northern backwoods chronicler | CBC News\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eISBN: 97801894759044 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eGC\u0026amp;C Stock #5270\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gillmore Coins \u0026 Collectibles","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48246252503270,"sku":"5270","price":15.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/6212\/8614\/files\/5270_1.jpg?v=1787782310","url":"https:\/\/gillmore.ca\/products\/wild-free-stories-by-frank-cooke-as-told-to-jack-boudreau-2004-1st-ed","provider":"Gillmore Coins \u0026 Collectibles","version":"1.0","type":"link"}