Autore: Jim “The Jayhawker” Merriott

Jim Merriott was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and grew up on and around the Missouri River. As a boy, he learned to hunt and fish with his father, James Sr., in the Ozark Mountains. There he learned to fish for both cold-water and warm-water fish. Along the Warsaw River, Jim read many adventure books written by Mark Twain, Jack London, John Steinbeck, and Ernest Hemingway. He is a graduate of Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, Kansas, and worked on his master’s degree at Central Missouri State University in Warrensburg. He began his career as a teacher and coach and was host to a weekly outdoor talk show in Denver. He has been master of ceremonies for the Colorado RV, Sports, Boat, and Travel Show and has written a weekly outdoor column since 1989 in numerous newspapers. He has won several newspaper awards from the Kansas Press Association and the Panhandle Press Association. He is a member of several outdoor writers’ organizations and writers’ associations. He lives in Greeley, Colorado, where he earned an American history degree and worked on a history master’s. He is a certified baseball historian.