What kind of stuff do you all read?

[springfield art]

Hear are a few books I have enjoyed. I have read all of them several times.

Skeeter Skelton anthologies: "Good Friends Good Guns and Good Whiskey" and "Hoglegs, Hipshots and Jalapenos". (Skeeter was the real deal and one of the all time great gun writers).

Guy Lautard editor. "The J.M. Pyne Stories and other selected writings by Lucian Cary" (Fiction based around Harry Pope the great barrel maker. Also exciting stories about machinists).

John McPhee. "Rising From the Plains" and "Irons in the Fire". ("Rising..." the geology of Wyoming told thru true history of pioneer family. "Irons..." cattle rustling in contemporary Nevada.) {Many more great books too numerous to list}.

Jim Rearden. "Castner's Cutthroats. Saga of the Alaska Scouts" (Historic fiction about Scouts in WWII Jap invasion. In reality, the Scouts were masters of bushcraft)

I used to really enjoy Skeeter in the magazines, haven't gotten to his books, though. Sad to see his son recently passed at only 63 years or so; too bad he couldn't enjoy retirement after a career in the border patrol or state police, I forget which he was in. Wonder where Skeet's collection is or was liquidated?

 

[Darto]

10-1/2" x 14 " 416 pages 6.5 pounds
I bought used to save money
Coffee table book (pictures)
Lord Canarvon: "Can you see anything"?
Howard Carter: "Yes, wonderful things! And everywhere the gleam of gold...
(and then the Egyptian Museum in Cairo added twelve more rooms)

 

[Felonious]

I used to read a lot more, when I was younger I would spend hours a day buried in books. I hate to admit it, but I've slowly transferred to reading articles and internet posts mostly now.

My last favorite few were by Jeff Shaara, I can't remember the names of the books, but it was a trilogy about WWII. It's written sort of like band of Brothers, it focuses around real people, in different places, and their activities. It reads like a story, but it is historically accurate, and follows real men that did exist, he just took the liberty of filling out some dialogue between characters.

He also wrote some great civil war books in a similar format. It makes you feel like you're reading a story, rather than a history book.

Now, when I want to learn something, I don't pick up a book, I sign up for the forum.

 

[bpd303]

Don't read too many books, novels & such (short attention span) mostly magazines now a days. My favorite is Man at Arms for the gun collector.

 

[Desert Dawg]

I read Muzzle Loading Forum.

 

[user 31232]

In my youth playboy for the articles

 

[Tyler L]

I finally read Elmer Keith's "Sixguns". Very interesting and lots of good info even though it's quite dated now.

 

[Boston Bill]

I don't read anymore. Magazines are too expensive, and I don't have the patience to stay with a novel like my wife can. I'd rather type here or watch YouTube videos of dudes fixing old tractors.

Get a library card, usually no cost? Get an e reader app like Overdrive and its no cost to read ebooks or magazines at the library. And the best part is unlike the old days you don't have to visit the library. Tho that was fun.

 

[Boston Bill]

I am usually on the road for work 3 to 5 days a week so I read a lot. I got a Kindle from Amazon and they got that deal where you get as many books as you want for $10 or so a month and I definitely get my money's worth. Of course I read lots of history. For fiction is mostly horror, science fiction, and adventure stuff. A while ago I read a couple books that seemed like they would be absurd but turned out to actually be extremely good. That got me branching off into subjects that I had never thought of reading before and I have found quite a lot of good ones.

Avoid vampire stories. Now they are all sexy, rich, mysterious, and wear fancy clothes. Yuck! Vampires should be scary and gross. Don't even think of reading any werewolf stories written recently. Now they tend to be romance stories and don't have many female characters. Enough said. I tried a couple of those romance novels that women like so much. I'm done with those. Those are just pornography. I have liked Stephen King stories for a really long time. But every book that he wrote while Donald Trump was president was awful.

You don't have to stick with the old classics anymore. There are a lot of really good new books now. Get one of those Kindle things. Its small and you can download books onto it. Its saves a fortune and you don't end up with a room full of books.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09SWW583J?ref_=nav_em__k_ods_eink_jr_0_2_7_3&th=1

Am to cheap for Kindle Unlimited. I get BookBub and get a lot of free books or .99 cents books. Favorite authors I pay a bit more for.

 

[EcoRover]

Just curious what taste every one has when it comes to reading material?
I am not a huge magazine reader simply due to the boring stuff and mostly advertisement stuff in them. They can be good for pictures though to look at and day dream, but usually the writing sucks LOL.
I've pretty much destroyed the book department and am looking for "new" authors that write decent about the mountain man era. I've gone through so many books by various authors, including one writer that has a 70+ book series, that it's getting super hard to find new material to enjoy.

I won't bore yous with my non-shooting related reading, but for guns and such some faves yous might find of interest include:

• Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian. (Section on making gunpowder is awesome. He's the guy that also wrote the novels that films such as The Road, No Country for Old Men and All the Pretty Horses were based on.)
• General Omar Bradley, A Soldier's Story.
• Jeanetter Rogers, Champion Buffalo Hunter (about Vic Smith)
• Philip Tome, Pioneer Life; Or 30 years a hunter.
• Steven Rinella, American Buffalo

 

[1950DAVE]

Just finished 3 volumes of History American Fur Trade of the Far West by Chittenden

 

[Felonious]

I just finished "The Butchering Art" by Lindsey Fitzharris. It's about medical care and surgeries back when they were first getting started.

Incredibly interesting book, it makes me glad I live in today's medical times. I'm sure we'll look back in a hundred years at our surgeries as crude.

I had a hernia operation done laparoscopicly with a robot. I WALKED out of the hospital from a surgery that traditionally puts you in bed for 4 to 6 weeks, and was back on my feet doing normal activity less than 48 hours later. Amazing stuff in the hands of a well trained doctor. He wasn't even in the room for the surgery, only the anesthesiologist.

Back in the day, that surgery would have most likely killed me.

 

[reddogge]

I used to be a voracious reader but sadly, since I've had full blown cable for the past 6.5 years my reading has suffered. Right now I'm re-reading my copy of "Custer's Fall, The Native American Side of the Story" by David Humphreys Miller. He interviewed 72 actual participants in the battle and some relatives. They were old but remembered the battle clearly. BTW, according to them, Custer was mortally wounded while at the river and carried up to the last stand hill either dying or already dead. No heroic stand.

 

[Zapadach]

I finally read Elmer Keith's "Sixguns". Very interesting and lots of good info even though it's quite dated now.

I have always wanted to read Bill Jordan's book "No Second Place Winner". I do know if it is still in print.

 

[Zapadach]

Just finished 3 volumes of History American Fur Trade of the Far West by Chittenden

There was an old book I borrowed from the library about 40 years ago called "The Old North West". The book was written about 1930, and it coverd the fur trade just before the French and Indian War. It was most interesting to say the least. I do not know if it could be found today.

 

[Century to late]

There was an old book I borrowed from the library about 40 years ago called "The Old North West". The book was written about 1930, and it coverd the fur trade just before the French and Indian War. It was most interesting to say the least. I do not know if it could be found today.

Two avaliable on thriftbooks site.

 

[Rum River]

I have always wanted to read Bill Jordan's book "No Second Place Winner". I do know if it is still in print.

Original copyright was 1965, my copy is the fourteenth printing from 1994. Online prices seem to range anywhere from $40-$50 to over $100.

 

[Gopher0]

All kinds of stuff From SiFi to a cook book, Depends on mood

 

[oldwood]

Have been studying F and I war , Western frontier Indian wars east of the Miss. River. Age 14 , read a land mark book written by Herbert Altchiller , Ky State Historian. Western Pa. has a lot of F and I era historical sites , and markers along roads. Geo. Washington wrote about his Indian War adventures 1750 thru 1755. Conrad Weiser left an amazing history covering 1746 to 1766 as eembassador between the Penn family and the Iroquois Indian Nation. Wm. Trent , Indian trader licensed by the Crown was an early trader among tribes as far west as the Miss. River , at an early day. Etc , etc , etc. Since 190 , have collected and digested a wheelbarrow of books on these subjects. Good place to start , would be Aller Eckerts land mark historical narritives. Eckert was a rabbid researcher , and his books are accurate , as any could be.

 

[bpd303]

The older I get, the shorter my attention span gets. Mostly read magazines lately or looking something up in one of my blacksmithing books for something in the forge.