Hello all! Just finished a good trapping book and it got me to thinking, what books do you feel every outdoorsman needs in their library. Post up a few of your favorites and try to cover several subjects if possible. Thanks!

The Big Sky. A.B. Guthrie, Jr.
Crow Killer: The Saga of Liver-eating Johnson. Thorpe and Bunker
The Wolves of Alaska. Rearden
The Journals of Lewis and Clark. Bernard DeVoto
Undaunted Courage. Stephen Ambrose

Jack

Wild Life ...The Evolution and Misadventures of a Naturalist

Jackson Whitman

Book of the Rifle by Jim Carmichael (concise, clear, how to book on evolution and employment of modern rifle)
Alaska's Wolf Man by Frank Glaser. (adventurous story of a young man, moved to Alaska)
Final Frontiersman by James Campbell (another adventurous story.....)
Almost a Miracle by James Ferling (in depth, but very readable, exploration of America's Revolutionary War)
-all these are non-fiction works I've read and reread

The Adventures of Lew and Charlie was first published in the 1920s in Fur-Fish-Game. Written for the magazine by Maurice Decker. The stories ran serially for forty years. The Lew and Chartlie stories in F-F-G are reprints of those original stories. There is a ten-volume set available through FFG.

Jack

Northern Bushcraft by Mors Kochansky

Survival skills of the North American Indians by Peter Goodchild.

The Hatchet Series by Gary Paulsen. Like myself it made many young boys want to hunt, trap, fish, forage and get supremely lucky with a moose kill. Gary died about a year ago, was a great guy.

Trappers of NY, Jeptha R. Simms , a biography of Nick Stoner and Nat Foster,

How odd that no one has yet mentioned the book I recently wrote!!!!! PM me for info on how to order for Christmas!

Pete

If you're a whitetail hunter. Whitetail Magic by Roger Rothaar is an excellent read.

Maneaters by Corbett and Wanderings of an elephant hunter by Bell. both about a hunting world that is forever gone.

Although most of these books are geared towards youngsters, I still re-read some of them every year.

Where the Red Fern Grows
Anything by Jim Kjelgaard (My favorites are Haunt fox, Stormy and Big Red but there are so many great ones)
My Side of the Mountain
White Fang and Call of the Wild by Jack London
The Wolfling and Rascal by Sterling North
Old Yeller, Savage Sam and Hounddog Man by Fred Gipson
Anything by Gary Paulson

Read most of the books mentioned above

Been reading “lords of the fly”

The heyday of big tarpon fishing around homosassa Florida in the 70’s



A nice escape after a day in the snow/wind

Well since Pete was willing to self promote, so will I.

https://www.amazon.com/Bayed-Treed-Travis-Letteer/dp/1514179512/ref=sr_1_1?crid=114KNHWLRVMB7&keywords=Bayed+or+Treed&qid=1669481577&sprefix=bayed+or+treed%2Caps%2C545&sr=8-1

Nothing wrong with a little self promotion.
Keep em coming!

Sorry folks. Another self-promo. I don't really do any other advertising. No book signings, etc. Books are available through Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Trafford Press, etc. I can ship from home if you want books signed.

Sorry for the Shanghai of your thread, Guthrie.