as far as where the Initial attack occurred I haven't been find anything other than he was a member of a trapping party camped along the Yellowstone. As they stared into the blackness of the predawn forest, a barely perceptible movement caught their attention.

They weren’t sure where to start or end in their search for him. They set up their camp beside the river for a few days of rest.One morning well before dawn, with frost clinging to the blades of dry grass in the meadow beside their camp, the horses stomped restlessly in the cold air, steam blowing from their nostrils. After a moment of hesitation, he ate the last of his mutton, then he sat a moment contemplating his predicament.

That doesn't mean it's not though..

After two days without food or rest for either himself or his mule, Meek turned loose the animal, going on with just a gun and blanket. We’re all working at this in our own way.Someday, hopefully sooner than later, someone is going to be right, the treasure will be found and we’ll all hopefully have the answers.I hope it’s me and not you, but hey, cheers to all of us for putting in the effort.Also...sorry, forgot to mention this. It might be a clue, a hint, or just plain irony.I often wonder who was really attacking whom, in theses old stories. Two fell dead. Terror and fascination melded into a majestic sublimity for sensitive observers of the American west.This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Meek was afraid, though, of building a fire that would attract hostile attentions, so he kept moving to stay warm. 11 months ago. No firm place. As Meek gazed across the picturesque valley colored with waving grasses sprinkled with the bright splashes of summer flowers, surrounded by high mountains still topped with snow, herds of pack animals and colorful Indian camps spreading out around the rendezvous site, he realized how far he had traveled from his native Virginia.A month passed in the rendezvous camp, and by the end of July Meek was anxious to get into the mountains. I came to the conclusion that’s probably why he was lost for days. Separated from his comrades, he knew that trying to catch up with them would mean certain death at the hands of the pursuing assailants. A whole new country opened up to him as they marched across the territories of the Missouri, up the Arkansas River to the South Fork of the Platte River, then to the North Fork of the Platte and toward the headwaters of the Wind River in what would later become the Territory of Wyoming. Hunger began to overtake him, but he resisted using his gun, fearing the shots would alert Indians in the region of his whereabouts.

His supply of fresh mutton had quieted the constant hunger of previous days, but now only a single piece of the meat remained. This was more than a small Indian raiding party. This was, the mountain men pronounced, “the back door to that country which divines preach about.” The trappers had stumbled into Colter’s Hell.The back door to Hell that Joe Meek and his companions had found bore the name of an early mountain-man trapper who had first come west with the American explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Meek often found himself pausing to relish the stunning scenery. How this relates to FF is that this is his chase and his story. For a moment he contemplated saving it for later. His horse was shot dead beneath him, but Fitzpatrick quickly leapt onto another and continued his mad dash to protect the camp. https://sos.oregon.gov/blue-book/Pages/explore/notable/meek.aspx Even the wizened veterans of mountain life were taken by this scene, and at one point the entire company moved their camp to a site more advantageous for viewing the mountainous spectacle looming over Jackson’s Hole.The scenery offered some respite from the monotony of setting and checking traps. History was written by the survivors and tells the story from their perspective. By October Captain Sublette’s trappers departed for the autumn trapping season farther east. It is his history as he remembers it or perhaps how he wants it remembered, not as others perceived as it happened.So, as it happens, Joe Meek fit into my search, and before I went BOTG I Googled the answer to this question because I couldn't find it in my notes or bookmarked web pages.I did, however, come across this quote I hadn't found previously, which made me scratch my head:By 1840, admitting that "the fur trade is dead in the LOL.

He had gone roughly thirty miles since fleeing camp, crossing the Yellowstone River and entering the formidable terrain of high mountains.
It was not the snores arising from the camp that disturbed the animals, nor did they heed the embers left from the night’s campfires smoldering among the sleeping trappers strewn recklessly about like sacks of corn dumped from an errant wagon.

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