Book Thread

I've read a bunch, but in my tent I go back to Louis L'amour books. Entertaining, easy reads, strong male protagonists, usually hunting or tracking involved. As for non fiction, it's adjacent, but the book that's helped me the most is actually "Training for the New Alpinism". It's a fitness book for mountain climbers, but the desired physiology for back country hunters is identical.
 
So many good options, Cold Mountain Path, Desert Solitaire, Black Elk Speaks, The Three Cornered War, Thunder in the Mountains, any poetry written by Nora and Richard Dauenhauer.

For hunting books, I've enjoyed Hunting Alaska's Far Places and Alaska's Wolf Man, by Jim Rearden. Also liked Alaska-Yukon Trophies Won and Lost, by G.O. Young as a snapshot of what a major backcountry expedition looked like ca. 1919.
 

In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette​


This true story was fascinating.
 
The previously mentioned American Buffalo, Death in the Long Grass and Louis L’amour are all great.

Tenth Legion by Tom Kelly is as good a book about turkey hunting, or hunting in the South in general as you’ll find.
 
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