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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 lear...view moreJim 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.view less