For the past 40 years, jazz fans have known Earl McKee as the tall rancher in the black cowboy hat from Three Rivers, California who plays a mellow sousaphone and sings classic vocals for the popular High Sierra Jazz Band. What they may not know is that Earl (along with his wife Gaynor) is also an author.
Echoes of Blossom Peak: Cowboys, Horsemen and History of Three Rivers is the title of his first literary effort, published in 2013. Now we have Echoes of Three Rivers: Landmarks and Lore, a 364-page paperback on which Gaynor and Earl collaborated, with editorial assistance by Carol Nadine McGrew.
A review in The Kaweah Commonwealth weekly tells us: “There is only one reason that someone should endure the painstaking process of writing a great book—they have something important to say. This recently-published book is the most comprehensive work ever produced documenting the people, place and events of Three Rivers and Kaweah Country.”
The book is available through Amazon, which provides the following synopsis:
“Earl A. McKee, Jr. is a great story teller and having lived his 85 years in Three Rivers, California, he has a lot of stories to tell. Reading his first book, Echoe
