We had a post like this got wiped out a while back. (I think when they were cleaning servers or sumthin... older posts were eliminated)
I think it was originally started by MR. Sticks.

Anyway I am looking for a good read
(I know a bit out of our time frame, but a recommendation on an Oregeon trail book would be appreciated.)

I just re-read a book from my childhood
Where the Red Fern Grows. Man is that a good book. Old Dan...Little Ann.. If you have not read it I highly recomend it.

Thanks,
buck

Buck,
Even though Where the Red Fern Grows is set in the Ozarks, it was written by a guy in Idaho remembering his earlier days. A bit of trivia I came up with in the past few days.

"The Way West" is a good one about the OR Trail.

I'm in between books...I just finished Watership Down and it gave me an uncontrollable itch to hunt rabbits!

I do have Where the Red Fern Grows on my reading list...

Sparks

I'm in the middle of reading Boone:A Biography by Robert Morgan. SO far it's been a REALLY good read!

Hallow the fire,

Just reread One eyed Dream by terry C Johnston. What I didn't know was that there are three or four more books that came out on the Scratch character since I finished up the original three, in what seems like so long ago.

Am now rereading Alexander Ross, fur hunters of the far west. There seems to be some interesting opinions on how NWC/HBC did business. So much so, that I think another visit to some of these giants of the fur trade in first person is order....

Regards, stump

Just finished "Across the Great Divide" Robert Stuart and the Discovery of the Oregon Trail by Laton McCartney using Stuart Family journals. Robert Stuart was a minor stockholder in the Astoria Expedition. He had made the sail around the Horn on the Tounquine.Then led the first expedition to travel across country from west to east without ever being across it. He was the first person to actually use South Pass. A very good read.
Also for the period from 1832 to 1850 "Pueblo,Hardscrable,and Greenhorn" by Janet Lecompte is a very good read on the front range of Colorado and all the trading posts and settlements along there.
Stump
Terry C Johnson actually wrote 6 more books besides the origanal three for a total of nine books in the Scratch saga.All a very good read for historical fiction. One thing about Terry is he did know his history..
Woodman

Just started "The Naval War of 1812" by Teddy Roosevelt.

Also, "Poetry of the Civil War" edited by John Boyes.

Fiddlesticks

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I got a book at a yard sale "CANADIAN WILDS" written by Martin Hunter,copyright 1935. Hunter served in the HBC from 1863 -1903 starting as a clerk and retiring as a commissioned office of twenty years.He refers to the company as the "Great Fur Company" The articles in this book first appeared in Forest and Field and Hunter-Trader-Trapper written by Hunter.

stump. There are 11 books in that part of TCJ writtings,then Sons of the Plains Novels,3 books, then 15 more books in the Plainsmen Novels.There will be no more books forthcoming as TCJ went beaver in 2001. Good reading all the same.

Walking Crow,

Thanks for the info. I enjoyed TCJ's early works and was waiting patiently for another, but instead got the Custer stuff and it just left me flat. So, didn't continue on with the series when he picked back up with Scratch. There's a plaines man book I guess that is about the Modoc Indian war and as I'm intimate with Siskiyou Co. CA history, am trying to order up that book and see how he did with the topography etc of my boyhood growing up country.

Thanks for the info again.

regards, stump

just finished The Master Backwoodsman by Bradford Angier,lots of useful outdoors skills information. am just getting started on Voices From The Wilderness, kind of autobiographical short stories from longhunters to buffalo hunters.

I just finished "American Rifle: A Biography" by Alexander Rose.

I'm currently reading "Eherenberg: Goliad Survivor - Old West Explorer" By Natalie Ornish.

It's a short biography of Herman Ehernberg, and then his memoir "Der Freiheitskampf in Texas im Jahre 1836" (The Fight for Freedom in Texas in the Year 1836)

It's quite fascinating. Eherenberg was a New Orleans Grey who fought in the siege of Bexar and Coleto Creek before Fannin surrended his troops. He survived (escaped) the executions and went on to have a full life.

Craig

stump! go to www.imt.net/~tjohnston,you will find more information on other novels by TCJ with naratives and lots more information about the books and the man.

Hey Buck, have you read Wah-To-Yah and the Taos Trail, by Lewis Garrard ? Great book about the southwest fur trade in the late 1840's. In the book Lewis meets some famous fellas Carson,Beckworth, The Bent's,Ruxton etc...Written in 1849 it has none of the fancy language of the time, but just a good,honest (and Fun ) read. andy

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have you read Wah-To-Yah and the Taos Trail, by Lewis Garrard ? .....

Mr Andy,
Thanks for the recomendation. I will have to do a little research and see if I can come up with tahat title

Thanks Kindly
buck

Reading DARK EAGLE by John Ensor Harr, novel about Benedict Arnold and the American Revolution.Good reading insite into history and a person in particular.Smooth move on the English part.

ADVENTURES ON THE COLUMBIA RIVER by Ross Cox

A FEW YEARS BACK I WAS DOWN IN S.INDIANA AND WENT TO BOONES CAVERNS GOT A BOOK THEIR CALLED SQUIRE, THE INCREDDIBLE ADVENTURES OF DANIEL BOONE`S KID BROTHER IT`A BY W.FRED CONWAY.
ITS AN INTERESTING READ SOME INTERESTING STUFF IN IT.

Colonial Arkansas 1686-1804: A Social and Cultural History, by Morris Arnold.

Valentine gift from tha darlin' wahf.

Spot

In a few minutes I want to sit down with Dante's Divine Comedy, in Spanish. I will also be sticking my nose into the Sp - En dictionary as well, hee, hee.
volatpluvia

Just finished FIRST ACROSS THE CONTINENT by Noah Brooks (The story of the Exploring Expedition of Lewis & Clark in 1803-4-5). Currently reading THE FIGHTING CHEYENNES by George Bird Grinnell. Interesting that some of the NDN's were still using flint lock smooth bores in the 1870's.