Books on muzzleloaders

[musketman]

What books do you recomend on muzzleloaders?

I have:

"BUCKSKINS AND BLACK POWDER" by: Kin Grissom published in 1983.

"THE MUZZLE-LOADING CAP LOCK RIFLE" by: Ned H. Roberts published in 1940, republished in 1991.

FOXFIRE series

There are so many more great books out there, what ones do you like?

 

[No Powder]

This is not really a book, it's more of a periodical. "The Beaver" Special Issue Autumn 1983/reprint Subtital The Hudson's Bay Company and The Fur Trade: 1670-1870
I got mine from the Museum of the Fur Trade, Chadron Neb. I have a link to them on our groups web page http://home.att.net/~wordet the links are on page 3. There is a noval called "The Grand Portage" by Walter O'meara out of print I think. This is a good read very factual although it is somewhat of a love story. Even the women like it.
The Museum has one of the best Trade Gun collections you will ever see. Hope to get to their Rendezvous this next year.

 

[Claude Mathis]

There's also Muzzleloader Magazine's "The Book of Buckskinning" series.

 

[musketman]

Thanks, I'll check them out...

 

[tg]

For Books on the guns and detail about them, Shumways "Rifles of Colonial America" 1&2 and Whiskers "school" books are good, "The Kentucky Rifle& Pistol 1750-1850" by Johnson is another good one with lots of photos, I think T.M. Hamilton's Colonial Frontier Guns" is about the best I havce seen on early French and English smoothbores.