Good book of stories

I have a friend who just had shoulder surgery, I want to get him a good book full of true stories. Mountain men/outdoor type stories. Anyone have suggestions?

"Journal of a Trapper" by Osborne Russell.

Not stories, just one man's journal of his time in the mountains during the last of the beaver years.

"My sixty years on the plains, trapping, trading and Indian fighting" by William Thomas Hamilton.

A Life Wild and Perilous by Robert Utley is a good book relating true stories of the free trappers. I have a lot of mountain man books and journals, and There are a lot of good ones. Osborne Russell was a company man, and I find the journals of the free trappers more interesting, plus Russell was known to embellish events and tell some tall tales. Doesn't mean it's not a good read though.

Otherwise, anything by Peter Hathaway Capstick or Jim Corbett. These are really good books about hunting.

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"50 years a Trapper and Treasure Hunter"by Johnny Thorpe

Ben East put out a few book, can't remember the titles

Wayne Negus did a couple books on trapping that were stories of his life. Excellent reading.

That is a good one, I have it.

Bob Halbritter's "Heart of a Hunter"
I read it last year...

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What was the name of that story where a guy marries a gal and they move to AK or somewhere north? He leaves her in their wilderness cabin. Goes off trapping or hunting and gets killed. She has to learn to fend for herself in an environment she's not accustomed to.

Mink mary and me by Chick Ferguson?

Trapping through the Years, and On the Line . Both by Charles Dobbins, and no I'm not sucking up to the bossman here. They are just real good reads.

I agree, they are good books. I always enjoyed Charlie’s writing style. I swear when I read his stuff it’s just like talking to him at a convention. I swear I can hear his his voice in my head telling the stories or giving instruction. Maybe I’ve watched to many trapping videos. But I get the same imagery and hear their voice with other trappers books I’ve read to

I don't think that's it. As I recall, it might have been a movie I started to watch on TV, but didn't get to finish it. I think it might have had the word "North" in it.

"Liver Eatign Johnson" - The "true" story of Jeremiah Johnson - good reading

In addition to Alaska's Wolf Man, another good one is Three Against the Wilderness. I was made aware of both books from others from Tman. Both are non-fiction accounts of life in Alaska.

A tough trip through paradise- a Hispanic in early Montana and his time with Indians, buffalo hunting, running a trading post of sorts. He happens to be a very funny writer.
My Life as an Indian; The Story of a Red Woman and a White Man in the Lodges of the Blackfeet [James Willard Schultz]

Trapper7, I think you are talking about the story of Olive Frederckson. There were numerous stories in the old Outdoor Life magazine about her and how she survived. Her book was "The Silence of the North".


Any books by Russell Annabel are excellent. Ernest Hemingway called Russell Annabel the best outdoor writer he had ever read