Recommend me some books/novels please

[GreyGhost85]

With archery deer season around the corner, i need to start rounding up some new reading material for potentially 10 consecutive 15-hour days in a ground blind. I usually tear through quite a few books in August every year. I prefer outdoor, frontier or history/biographies. Has anyone been reading anything good? Any recommendations? I've read all Rinella's books a couple times, most of Capstick's books, and quite a few on mountain men and early settlers. Last year i read "Boone" and "A Sand County Almanac" and would recommend them both.

[10Turkeys]

Just finished Arizona's Deadliest Gunfight, about the gunfight at the Power cabin in 1918, good book. Jack O'Connors books are worth a read. Jim Carmichaels books are good.

[GreyGhost85]

Thanks, Ill take a look at the gunfight book. Ive hunted out of Powers Cabin before.

[elecshoc]

WolfKiller, the story of a Navajos life as told to the Wetherhills of the Monument Valley area at the start of the 1900s.

[lonne]

I highly recommend Hunting Trips of a Ranchman and the Wilderness Hunter by Teddy Roosevelt, if you have not already browsed:

https://www.amazon.com/Hunting-Trips-Ranchman-Wilderness-Hunter/dp/0679602348/ref=sr_1_24?ie=UTF8&qid=1532041238&sr=8-24&keywords=theodore+roosevelt+hunting

 

I have only read sections of it, but it's excellent.

 

Lonne

[Snapshot]

60 Years a hunter. Written by our recently departed blood brother, Mr. Bill Quimby.

[duckhunter175]

Have you read any of Robert Ruark's work? The Old Man and the Boy, The Old Man's Boy Grows Older.

 

For frontier stuff-- Empire of the Summer Moon

 

Classic Hunting Tales-- Edited by Vin Sparano

[AZkiller]

I'd recommend you get out and hunt instead of sitting around reading books lol. I could never sit a blind. More power to you!

[muledeerarea33?]

I like the SAS survival guide, and any book about edible plants in Arizona. Theres a mining history in az book I read a few years ago but cant remember the name.

[Snapshot]

I'd recommend you get out and hunt instead of sitting around reading books lol. I could never sit a blind. More power to you!

LOL. Me neither. I can sit for about 60-90 minutes, then I get happy feet.

[Red Sparky]

There is one called Black Range Tales by James A. McKenna. It is an old prospector around Hillsboro and Lake Valley during the time of the bridal chamber discovery. I think it is out of print but I can send you a copy but it is only 210 pages. I like to read is anything about old Ghost Towns and my wife got me a book called Explorations & Adventures in Arizona & New Mexico by Samuel Woolworth Cozzens. I mainly read local history and find places to go exploring. I also like forensics so read a lot of anthropology books.

 

Instead of reading so much take a pen and paper and write your own novel.

[bigorange]

Check out Orphan Hero for a nice historical read...some fiction but based on the authors great-something grandfather. Author is a friend of mine from work.

[trphyhntr]

marine sniper: 93 confirmed kills

[Edge]

marine sniper: 93 confirmed kills

Great book, couldn't put it down.

The author was a sniper and also wrote a book on the history of snipers

[25-06]

Anything from J. Frank Dobie.