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A couple people highly recommended this book to me when I asked for the best book on Kit Carson and his times. I'm about 70 pages from the end of its 500+ pages and I've got burn marks on my fingertips. Yep, it's one helluva fireballin' book!
Out of thin air a few months back I startd getting an interest in the Rocky Mountain Fur Trapping scene.
Read some great books, again recommended by folks here, to het my feet wet. Before I knew it, I was standing on the bottom with about 30 feet of water to the surface.
A Majority of Scandals - wonderfully written intro to the scene.
Broken Hand - a biography, of sorts, of a key mountain man who hung and helped Jedidiah Smith when they were young hotheadds going after fur!fur!FUR!Another interesting future awaited him.
Now I'm almost done with Hit and the western plains afrter the trapping scene wentbelly-up. To say,"Interesting book" doesn't quite cut it, to say "Interesting GUY" and you can't cut it with a razor knife!
So now where do I go? Tell you other books I bought along these. The Museum of the Fur Trade supplied me with a lot of good prospects. I've got the Hanson #1 Encyclopedia all about firearms during that era. Definitely haveto work out these spindly arms before I attempt reading that tome, lemme tel ya. But putting it on the table and leafing through it is just marvelous I also got another Hanson book, "When skins were Money" which is laid out very interestingly - covers fur trading from soup to nuts, reall olden times onward, other players in the game we hardly think of. Quality
And last but notlease from the MFT I bought Hanson's vol.1 of the History of the American Furtrade. Looks very academic and cut and dry. It seems like a good one to read AFTER you read as much as you can on this period, that way he can put a framework in your memory of all the characters, incidents and timelines involved. It's like an in-depth summary. It goes inito some explanations but seems addressed ore to those who've already done their homework and just need a nice red bow to wrap it all up in.
Another recent purchase, also recommended by some fellows here is the book BOONE thatcame out a couple-three yearsago. But I'm not so sure I feel like goingback east right now, for somereason or another. Same thing with Africa. I ALWAYS lovereading of the old Blackpowder heroes in Africa.
Sooooo if you haven't fallen asleep by now and have a good idea on what I should chase down for my next book I'd really be grateful.
In the meantime, Happy Tralis - Marc
Out of thin air a few months back I startd getting an interest in the Rocky Mountain Fur Trapping scene.
Read some great books, again recommended by folks here, to het my feet wet. Before I knew it, I was standing on the bottom with about 30 feet of water to the surface.
A Majority of Scandals - wonderfully written intro to the scene.
Broken Hand - a biography, of sorts, of a key mountain man who hung and helped Jedidiah Smith when they were young hotheadds going after fur!fur!FUR!Another interesting future awaited him.
Now I'm almost done with Hit and the western plains afrter the trapping scene wentbelly-up. To say,"Interesting book" doesn't quite cut it, to say "Interesting GUY" and you can't cut it with a razor knife!
So now where do I go? Tell you other books I bought along these. The Museum of the Fur Trade supplied me with a lot of good prospects. I've got the Hanson #1 Encyclopedia all about firearms during that era. Definitely haveto work out these spindly arms before I attempt reading that tome, lemme tel ya. But putting it on the table and leafing through it is just marvelous I also got another Hanson book, "When skins were Money" which is laid out very interestingly - covers fur trading from soup to nuts, reall olden times onward, other players in the game we hardly think of. Quality
And last but notlease from the MFT I bought Hanson's vol.1 of the History of the American Furtrade. Looks very academic and cut and dry. It seems like a good one to read AFTER you read as much as you can on this period, that way he can put a framework in your memory of all the characters, incidents and timelines involved. It's like an in-depth summary. It goes inito some explanations but seems addressed ore to those who've already done their homework and just need a nice red bow to wrap it all up in.
Another recent purchase, also recommended by some fellows here is the book BOONE thatcame out a couple-three yearsago. But I'm not so sure I feel like goingback east right now, for somereason or another. Same thing with Africa. I ALWAYS lovereading of the old Blackpowder heroes in Africa.
Sooooo if you haven't fallen asleep by now and have a good idea on what I should chase down for my next book I'd really be grateful.
In the meantime, Happy Tralis - Marc
