Good books

[Gvilleddie]

I just finished reading The Long Hunt. What are some other good reads about Mountain Men in the 17th and 18th centuries? E

 

[Hatchet-Jack]

The Leather Stocking Tales by James Fenimore Cooper is about Frontiersman and Indians in early Colonial times.

 

[Pete G]

"Fennimore Cooper's Literary Offences" by Mark Twain.

 

[CaptainKirk]

Crow Killer- Raymond W. Thorp
Mountain Man-Vardis Fisher

 

[CaptainKirk]

Crow Killer- Raymond W. Thorp
Mountain Man-Vardis Fisher

These two books were the basis for the movie "Jeremiah Johnson". While it's been some time since I read them, both were excellent.

 

[user 36911]

Have you seen a picture of Johnson? He sure doesn't look like Redford.

 

[CaptainKirk]

Have you seen a picture of Johnson? He sure doesn't look like Redford.

Yes. Actually, it was Johnston. And not likely he would win many beauty contests!

https://wiki2.org/en/Liver-Eating_Johnson

 

[Treestalker]

Yes. Actually, it was Johnston. And not likely he would win many beauty contests!

https://wiki2.org/en/Liver-Eating_Johnson

Wake Up, buddy, it's time for your picture!

 

[TNGhost]

The Personal Narrative of James O. Patty

Jim Bridger: The Life and Legacy of America's Most Famous Mountain Man

 

[Eric Bye]

Forty Years a Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri - the Personal Narrative of Charles Larpenteur, 1833-1872 (non-fiction)
- Any books by the following:
- Edward Louis Henry, e.g. Shinin' Times! - One trapper's personal chronicle of the American Rocky Mountain Fur Trade, 1828-1833 (fiction)
- Allan Eckert, especially Twilight of Empire and Gateway to Empire (based on historic facts)
- Terry Johnston, e.g., Carry the Wind (based on historical facts)
- Winfred Blevins, e.g., Give Your Heart to the Hawks - a Tribute to the Mountain Men

 

[ADK Bigfoot]

Adventures of a Mountan Man: The Narrative of Zenas Leonard (Bison Book, 1978)
Journal of a Trapper, Osborne Russell (Bison Book, 1965)
Personal Narrative of James O. Pattie (Mountain Press Publishing, 1988)
Journal of a Mountain Man, James Clyman (Mountain Press Publishing, 1984)
The River of the West, The Adventures of Joe Meek (Mountain Press Publishing, 1985) Vols 1 and 2


Slightly off topic, but just finished Century of Conflict by Joseph Lister Rutledge (Popular Library, 1956). This is part of a Canadian History series but is very informative about life between 1660 and 1760, focusing on the struggle between the British Colonies and the French in Canada. Highly recommended.

ADK Bigfoot

 

[Bighorserider]

Allan Eckert has a series of book about the pre-American Revolution that are excellent if a little hard to get through. Bernard DeVoto's Across the wide Missouri is good.

 

[Jay Templin]

"Fennimore Cooper's Literary Offences" by Mark Twain.

My very favourite!
Jay

 

[Phil Coffins]

Not what we call the far west but a first hand account of hunting in the late 1830s to 1840. Lots of details that you don’t find in novels.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/51800/51800-h/51800-h.htm

 

[JCKelly]

Wild Life in the Far West, personal adventures Of Border Mountain. By Captain James Hobbs, of California. ~1872.
Author lives with Comanches for some time, hunts under Kit Carson. scalps, Apaches, Mexican War, 1849 gold rush stuff, Peg-Leg Smith, war by France against Mexico, assorted large animals, &c
Hey - back in the 1970-80's one could buy such from John King's Bookstore in Detroit. For a few bucks I could get Dad Civil War books written when their wounds still bled. Like, stuff that's not written in modern books.
If Wild Life has been reprinted, get it.

 

[tenngun]

Schoolcraft left good books on life and travel along the trans frontier
Townsend’s offers several journals of folks passing through the Americas late colonial through federal period

 

[rickpa]

While not exactly history Kenneth Roberts wrote a series of novels about American history from the FIW to War of 1812 including one, Oliver Wiswell, told from the point of a Loyalist in AWI. All very readable and entertaining.

 

[user 36911]

I just finished reading The Long Hunt. What are some other good reads about Mountain Men in the 17th and 18th centuries? E

17th and 18th centuries?

Do you realize the mountain men were from 1810- 1880?

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Drums Along The Mohawk
A Rabble in Arms
Northwest Passage
Arundel
Oliver Wiswell was already mentioned

IF you can find the DVD (yes I know the question was about "books"), Allegheny Uprising with John Wayne and Claire Trevor is fun...., and it's a young John Wayne. Not that bad for the 1930's
It's curious as there they are doing a scene in Hollywood California, and they show the loading of a musket by holding the ball in the palm of the hand and covering it with poured powder....,
Somebody knew about muzzleloaders....

LD

 

[son of rooster]

not the west...but....The Frontiersmen by Eckert