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Re: Any Good Books to Read?? [Re: nvwrangler] #6620894
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Originally Posted by nvwrangler
Fiction? Last of the Breed by Louis La'Mour


One of his best along with the walking drum

Here are a couple more though not by Louis

Forty miles a day on beans and hay

River of doubt

Skeletons on the Zahara







�Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks.�
― Robert A. Heinlein
Re: Any Good Books to Read?? [Re: BvrRetriever] #6620905
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The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge, by Michael Punke.

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Re: Any Good Books to Read?? [Re: BvrRetriever] #6620909
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“One Second After” great series of books.


Everything the left touches it destroys
Re: Any Good Books to Read?? [Re: BvrRetriever] #6620923
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Forty Years Gatherins by Spike Van Cleve

Re: Any Good Books to Read?? [Re: BvrRetriever] #6620924
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A man to match the mountains: 70 years of trapping tales by Wayne negus

Re: Any Good Books to Read?? [Re: BvrRetriever] #6620931
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Chips From A Wilderness Log by Calvin Rutstrum


Let a man meet a bear robbed of her cubs rather than a fool and his folly. Proverbs 17:12
Re: Any Good Books to Read?? [Re: BvrRetriever] #6620956
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Alaskana titles: The Final Frontiersman by James Campbell, Alaska's Wolf Man by Jim Reardan

Re: Any Good Books to Read?? [Re: BvrRetriever] #6620964
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Re: Any Good Books to Read?? [Re: 30/06] #6621268
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Originally Posted by 30/06
Alaskana titles: The Final Frontiersman by James Campbell, Alaska's Wolf Man by Jim Reardan


I have read Alaska's Wolf Man....great book! I'm down to the last two chapters of Three Against the Wilderness.

Thank you everyone for the leads on my next read. I appreciate it!

Re: Any Good Books to Read?? [Re: BvrRetriever] #6621273
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Couple non fiction wagon train type reads:

Twenty miles to a match

40 mile desert

Re: Any Good Books to Read?? [Re: ] #6621274
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Originally Posted by CGilliam
Originally Posted by nvwrangler
Fiction? Last of the Breed by Louis La'Mour

Yes!

Or, The Walking Drum by La'mour


Reading Jubal Sackett now

Re: Any Good Books to Read?? [Re: BvrRetriever] #6621278
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Undaunted Courage by Stephen E. Ambrose is a good book about Lewis and Clark, I'm reading it now.

Re: Any Good Books to Read?? [Re: BvrRetriever] #6621295
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Winterdance by Gary Paulsen about the Iditarod race. Very good book but I don't agree with some of his views

Re: Any Good Books to Read?? [Re: BvrRetriever] #6621315
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two pages in and not mentioned yet........BIBLE

Re: Any Good Books to Read?? [Re: BvrRetriever] #6621336
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At the beginning of this thread he said he was looking for Trapping/Wilderness books.


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Re: Any Good Books to Read?? [Re: Buck (Zandra)] #6621356
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North to Cree Lake by A. L. Karras, also Traplines North by i think Steven W Meader

Re: Any Good Books to Read?? [Re: BvrRetriever] #6621357
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A more recent and really excellent book Alone in the Wilderness a trappers tale, by Dave Vander Meer. Highly recommend this book to everyone

Re: Any Good Books to Read?? [Re: BvrRetriever] #6621358
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Sorry that is The call of the Wilderness a trappers tale by Dave Vander Meer

Re: Any Good Books to Read?? [Re: James] #6621375
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Originally Posted by James
The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge, by Michael Punke.

Jim

I've got the book and read Lord Grizzly by Frederick Manfred, similar to the movie. It was ok.


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Re: Any Good Books to Read?? [Re: Pawnee] #6621483
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Originally Posted by Pawnee
“One Second After” great series of books.


Ditto

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