<p><em>Meatquake and Big Ernie</em> by John B. Milbert is an eclectic compilation of stories that cover a span of more than seventy years in settings ranging from the Oregon outdoors to urban environments. These anecdotal vignettes are shared in the fashion of yarns told around a fire to a small group of friends in a way to make the author's mom proud-or at least wouldn't inspire her to wash his mouth out with soap. Find out what it's like to be bitten by a rattlesnake outrun a derailing freight train climb into a Golden eagle's nest and more!</p><p><br></p><p>Pull up a chair and hear a few tales of amazing adventures witness myriad unique wonders and you just may find out what the peculiar title means too.</p>