Looking for a Book to Read

[ebutch]

Hey all! I will be doing a lot of traveling in the next couple months by bus and plane. I was wondering if someone knows a good read, I might be able to buy. Looking for some sort of outdoor adventure or hunting book. Looking for an enjoyable book! Thanks! Click!

 

[longshot47]

'Forty four years in the life of a hunter', Mesach Browning

 

[jbg]

While they don't pertain to muzzleloading, Peter Capstick's books on big game hunting in Africa are classics.

 

[stormcrow]

Recently finished River of Doubt, which chronicles Teddy Roosevelt's journey down an uncharted river in the Brazilian amazon. Great story of outdoor adventure and survival.

 

[Many Klatch]

Seedtime on the Cumberland by Harriet Arnow, 1960. You can find it on Abebooks for about $25. It is a great introduction into the founding of Kentucky and Tennessee and the wars with various parties. Probably the best overview available.

Many Klatch

 

[ihuntsnook]

Drums Along the Mohawk. Bought a copy on Amazon for about $7 delivered. Much better than the movie, and the movie was very good.

 

[dbutch]

thanks guys sound like all good reads, cant wait to pick them up, ill let you know if i find any other good ones!

 

[GreyWhiskers]

"Wild Life in the Far West" by Capt. James Hobbs is an action packed story. "Wah-To-Yah" by Lewis Garrard is another great read. I have both of these on my Nook and they were probably free. GW

 

[jamesthomas]

I'll second the Peter Capstick storys, You could also stock up on some Louis L'mour westerns.

 

[jethro224]

"They Shoot Canoes, Don't They" By Patrick McManus.
Not muzzleloading but it'll make you laugh out loud.

 

[Heavy Eagle]

Bernard Cornwell books--"The Fort" and "Redcoat" are based in the Revolutionary War; "Agrincourt", The Holy Grail Quest Series: "The Archer's Tale, Vagabond & Heretics"--all 4 books is about a longbowman adventure; the "Saxon Tales" series is set when Alfred the Great start trying to unify England. Start with "Agrincourt, and you will be hooked. I am also a big fan of Patrick McManus; try his new mystery series of Sheriff Bo Tully. They humorous.

 

[Ft. Jefferson]

Don't forget, "Getting Lost Requires Planning"!!! He's the kind of writer ya need to have on hand on a long, cold, winters afternoon around the hearth.

 

[Snakebite]

One of mine is "The Big Sky". My copy finally fell apart. I have most of Capstick's books, Death In The Long Grass is my favorite. I heard he spent more time in the bars listening to the hunters than he did in the bush, whether or not that's true I don't really care. Great books.

There are a lot of good books out there though such as Kit Carsons' autobiography, The Saga of Hugh Class, Jim Bridger, Mountain Men and Fur Traders of the Far West to name a few.

 

[Marc Adamchek]

Snakebite - What book on Jim Bridger would you recommend?

 

[BillinOregon]

"Under the Black Flag," by David Cordingly, considered the world's foremost expert on pirates. ARRRR, MATEY!

 

[Rev_William]

Crowkiller is the pc book Jerimiah johnson was taken from.

 

[bobthemotorcycle]

Zane Grey is a well known arther who wrote some very detaled stories of the American West.

When I was a truck driver I remember that a street in El Paso was named Zane Greyy Blvd. I dont know why as I do not believe he ever lived there. I guess he was that good.

 

[nchawkeye]

I can't believe nobody has mentioned "The Frontiesmen" by Allan Eckert...It follows Simon Kenton's life and the settling of Kentucky...It's historical fiction and fasinating...It's a classic...

Another that I have read several times is "Patriots...The men who started the American Revolution" by A.J. Langguth...This carries you from 1761 until the end of the American Revolution...

 

[ketoman]

I can't believe nobody has mentioned "The Frontiesmen" by Allan Eckert...It follows Simon Kenton's life and the settling of Kentucky...It's historical fiction and fasinating...It's a classic...

Another that I have read several times is "Patriots...The men who started the American Revolution" by A.J. Langguth...This carries you from 1761 until the end of the American Revolution...

Patriots is a great book

 

[Birdman]

Jefferson by Jefferson, a small book about tom Jefferson by Tom Jefferson, really just a compilation of quoates and thengs he wrote over the years showing who he was n how he thought, an amazeing man, of Poor Richards Almanac. by Ben Franklin, I usually read a line or two a day n then sit back n think on what he said for a bit, usually do the same with the Jefferson book, these guys made some amazeing statements that hold as true today as they did then, sometimes ya need to sit back n ponder some of the stuff to see what they were actually saying, because there are so many layers to it.