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Undaunted Courage Is a great and informative book; I loved it.


*Young guys should hang out with old guys; old guys know stuff.*
 
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Bob's Blackpowder Notebook
 
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I like to read at Bob's Blackpowder Notebook. Mark
 
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"Hunting Life Stories from 5 decades of hunting, trapping & fishing" by E. N. Woodcock


As long as there's Limb Bacon a man'll eat! (But mebbe not his wife...)
 
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WAR ON THE RUN and THE JOURNAL OF RUDOPLH FREDERICH KURTZ came by Santa express .
War on the Run is about Robert Rogers and his Rangers. Frederich Kurtz was a Swiss artist who hung out around Ft. Union and the upper Missouri from 1846-1852, writing and drawing what he saw and who he met. The journal has a number of his drawings as well.
Andy


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" On The Wild Edge ". By David Petersen

~Tony
 
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Christmas present from my wife..

"Whale Hunter" by Nelson Cole Haley.
Mr. Haley was a harpooner on the whaler Charles W. Morgan on it's 1849-53 cruise from New Bedford to the South Pacific.
Very interesting book, well written, hard to put down.
What's neat is that the Charles W. Morgan is now a museum ship at Mystic Seaport,CT.
 
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"Fox Trapping." A. R. Harding
"Thirty-One years on the Plains and in the Mountains Or, the last Voice from the Plains . . ." William F. Drannen
"A Brief Account of the Rise and Progress of the People Called Quakers" by William Penn (Blame Mark Sage for this last one; but it's really good!)

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As long as there's Limb Bacon a man'll eat! (But mebbe not his wife...)
 
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Sounds like everybody's reading some good literature.

Have any of you read "Endurance" by Alfred Lansing? It's the story of Sir Ernest Shackleton and his Imperial Trans-Antartic Expedition, the disaster that befell it, and their struggle to make it back to civilization. An absolutely gripping read.


"Return unto me, and I will return unto you," saith the Lord of hosts.
~Malachi 3:7b
 
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I understand there are no Middle English versions of Beowulf.
Sparks


"I thought when you said you chased tornadoes, it was just a metaphor."
--soon to be ex-fiance in Twister
 
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Josh....see if you can find a copy of SOUTH by Sir Ernest Shackleton. It is a copy of his journal.
If I had to go with someone on an epic voyage it would have been him.....no one died on Shackleton.
Andy


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I just finished reading "The Second Thanksgiving". It covers the period of 1621-1623 in the colonies south of Massachusetts. Very excellent historical fiction.
Currently reading "Treasure Train". Covers the end of the CW in Georiga. Not quite historical fiction but close. Well written and highly informative historical perspective on events surrounding the end of the war.
Both are free from Kindle books. That's a bonus.
 
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Christmas present from my wife..

"Whale Hunter" by Nelson Cole Haley.
Mr. Haley was a harpooner on the whaler Charles W. Morgan on it's 1849-53 cruise from New Bedford to the South Pacific.
Very interesting book, well written, hard to put down.
What's neat is that the Charles W. Morgan is now a museum ship at Mystic Seaport,CT.
That sounds like a very good book. I'm more of a science fiction fan myself, The Honor Harrington series by David Weber is very good JMHO.
 
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I just finished Resolute, by Martin W. Sandler. It is about the search for the Northwest Passage, and the search for Sir John Franklin, his missing ship snd crew. Great piece of information regarding a gift from Her Britainic Majesty to the United States. Great book!


"touch not the cat without a glove"
"Much of the social history of the western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. . ." Thomas Sowell
 
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Just finished my third re-read of Ekerts: That Dark and Bloody River, and Brumwell's: White Devil, about Maj. Robert Rogers.


" You do with your scalp as you wish and don't be telling us what to with ours."
 
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Right now I am reading Mark Twain's roughing it. I realize this is mid ninteenth century, but is still interesting. The were carrying cap and ball revolvers on a stagecoach ride to Nevada Territory, and one guy carried a pepperbox.
León


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I've started reading War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. It's quite a daunting book, but I'll get through it. Other books on my "to read" list are Les Miserables, The Count of Monte Cristo, and Moby Dick.

Oh, by the way, the book, The Crisis, by the American author Winston Churchill that I mentioned earlier is very good. I'd advice that one to anybody I talk to.


"Return unto me, and I will return unto you," saith the Lord of hosts.
~Malachi 3:7b
 
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Sticks,
For awhile historians thought William F. Drannon, author of that book, was blowing smoke/spinning yarns and otherwise full of hot air. But there is one episode in the book where evidence turned up later that proved he was present...that being the rescue of the pre-teen girl from her capturers. I used to have a very early copy of that book...until my dog developed a taste for old literature.

Sparks


"I thought when you said you chased tornadoes, it was just a metaphor."
--soon to be ex-fiance in Twister
 
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Bummer, man! I hope your dog learned something from it though! Big Grin


"Return unto me, and I will return unto you," saith the Lord of hosts.
~Malachi 3:7b
 
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