books on mountain men

[rawhide]

I've ben looking around for some good books on mountain men or the fare trade aera. any good ones? or ideas? I shoot roundys and love it. just want more info into the mountain men on how they lived worked you get the idea any help please. rawhide.

 

[ADK Ephraim]

For a long running series of good characters/fur trade history intermingling in a really good reading docudrama, read Terry C. Johnston's Titus Bass series. Well written, this 9 book series covers the entire western Fur Trade period and provides good insights to mountain man life and skills set against the documented history of the era. Quite definitely, about 9000 pages, of solid reading story!

 

[J.D.]

I would avoid reading fiction if you are interested in learning about the western mountain men.

I suggest joining the museum of the fur trade and reading their journals, in addition to browsing their book section.

IMHO, the journals and reminiscences of the Mountain men and western travelers is often more exiting than the fiction written about them.
http://www.furtrade.org/
http://furtrade.org/estore/index.php?cPath=21&osCsid=4521e1ddfde1fcb9b98d590f19106ba0

God bless

 

[atki]

Museum of the Mountain Man has a good journal also as well as a well stocked book store:
http://www.museumofthemountainman.com/

wb

 

[J.D.]

Just remembered this one.
http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/mmarch.html

 

[rawhide]

now that's wahat i'm talking about cool web sight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thanks for the help gang rawhide... :hatsoff:

 

[vthompson]

The books that I have about Mountain Men and the fur trade era came from Amazon. They have a great selection.
You can also check out the History Channel website.

 

[blackhorse]

Is Johnston a reenactor? I am on my second book written by him and it reads like it's written by someone that is a reenactor. And yes it is fiction but I enjoy reading them, good entertainment.

 

[deforge1]

Terry died of cancer in '01. He did camp a few times with some AMM guys, I had heard, But he did "walk the walk" and wandered the back country and knew the places that he wrote about. After you get done with the Titus Bass series, check out his "Plainsmen" books, I think there are 15 or 16 of them GOOD reads all.

 

[SmokeEater2]

A couple that I've read and thought to be pretty good.

Give Your heart to the hawks by Win Blevins

Rocky Mountain Rendezvous: A History of The Fur Trade 1825 - 1840 by Fred Gowens

Both are available from Amazon along with a lot of others I have on my wish list.

 

[Dick Wayner]

rawhide Try Robert Utley's A Life Wild And Perilous. Mr Utley is or was the chief historian for the National Parks Service. Very good read

 

[CaptainKirk]

"Mountain Man" by Vardis Fisher

"Crow Killer" by Raymond W. Thorp

You will recognize the inspiration behind the film "Jeremiah Johnson" in both these books.

Both are fictional works loosely based on legend, but very well written and impossible to put down IMHO.

 

[Herb]

Get "Tom Tobin, Frontiersman" by James E. Perkins. Adobe Village Press, Monte Vista, CO, printed 2005. ISBN 0-9644056-8-7, $21.95. I got mine at the Museum of the Fur Trade in Chadron, NE in August. This has more detailed history of the Sante Fe Trail, Kit Carson, the Indian wars, and the fur trade, than anything else I've read. His Hawken is in Gordon's Glorieta (NM) Museum.

 

[longbow-hunter]

Just for enjoyable reading I like the Wilderness series by David Thonpson. I'm waiting for book #65. They can be read in a few hours. Fiction but enjoyable

 

[robtattoo]

I'm just in the process of reading 'Journal of a Trapper' by Osborne Russell (ISBN 0-8032-5166-3) I picked up a copy of this fascinating, factual diary at the Museum Of The Mountain Men in Pinedaly, WY.

It's a blow-by-blow, day to day account of the author's life as a Company Trapper in the fur trade from 1834 to 1843

 

[George]

Try "Wah-to-yah, and the Taos Trail" by Lewis Hector Garrard. Written by a man who was there 1846-47, a good nonfiction.

I posted a list of books I've read and liked in the Muzzleloading and History in the Media forum at:
http://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/fusionbb/showtopic.php?tid/250649/

Scroll down for a few about the mountain man era.

Spence

 

[Kentuckywindage]

Just for enjoyable reading I like the Wilderness series by David Thonpson. I'm waiting for book #65. They can be read in a few hours. Fiction but enjoyable

THE BEST!! I have the entire collection, just have to buy a few of the newest. I kind of hold back until they have more coming out and then stock up again lol.

 

[misher]

By Christmas I should have all of Allan W. Eckert's Narratives of America series.
I lucked out on some. They can be hard to find, and expensive sometimes. :thumbsup:

 

[Black Hand]

I've ben looking around for some good books on mountain men or the fare trade aera. any good ones? or ideas? I shoot roundys and love it. just want more info into the mountain men on how they lived worked you get the idea any help please. rawhide.

There are many books available to read or download from Google Books having to do with the Fur Trade and Mountain Men. http://books.google.com/books

 

[JMinnerath]

Allan Eckert's books are some of my most prized.