Good books????

[Lucreau]

Looking to add to the collection. Anyone read or currently reading any really good western/Alaskan type books?

 

[SuperDUECE22]

Best Non Fiction Mountain Man Books

As the title says. In the market for a real good long read on The topic. In addition what is the better Jim Bridger account, I know there are a bunch.

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[NDGuy]

All of the Peter Capstick "Death" books are fantastic reads

 

[ODB]

The one standing is very good - John McPhee Coming into the Country.

Also included a few more…if you need more, don’t worry, I’ve got four more bookshelves just like this.

 

[Antares]

Maybe not exactly what you're looking for, but these are some interesting Alaska books that come to mind.

The Thousand Mile War
Ordinary Wolves
Wager with the Wind
Castner's Cutthroats
Alaska's Wolf Man

 

[WKB]

Edmund Morris' biographies on Theodore Roosevelt, specifically The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt and Colonel Roosevelt capture Teddy's time out west at the end of the Western era, his time in Cuba during the Spanish American War and then his 1909 Safari really well.

 

[displacedtexan]

"Western" is a pretty broad description...

Goodbye to a River by John Graves

Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness In The West by Cormac McCarthy

Walter Benjamin at The Dairy Queen by Larry McMurtry

Into the Wild by John Krakauer

 

[hoff1ck]

Ridgeline from Michael Punke is one of my favorites. More western history.

The Journey of Crazy Horse by Joseph Marshall is right up there as well.

 

[HoytHntr4]

Currently reading Alaska’s Wolf Man and really enjoying it

 

[Lucreau]

Thanks guys!!! Going to be making an order today

 

[TXRM1280]

Crow Killer
Empire of the Summer Moon
Undaunted Courage


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[schmalzy]

Crow Killer
Empire of the Summer Moon
Undaunted Courage


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I need to read crow killer but have read the other two. Fantastic books.


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[Mighty Mouse]

Non-fiction:
One Man's Wilderness by Dick Proenneke
Blood and Thunder by Hampton Sides

Historical fiction:
The Revenant and Ridgeline by Michael Punke

Pure fiction:
Louis L'amour (Sitka in particular if you want something set in Alaska)

 

[TXRM1280]

Okay not a western as it’s set in Kentucky but the history is fascinating….Cornbread Mafia. It’s not something I probably would have picked up on my own but my dad actually gave it to me for my birthday and said give it a shot, it’s great history and hilarious in a lot of ways. Look it up


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[NCTrees]

Lonesome Dove
Ordeal By Hunger
All the Pretty Horses

 

[sjwfarms]

Can't recommend Robert Ruark books enough.

Horn of the hunter
The old man and the Boy
and everything else by this author

re-read all of his books, among others, every year before the season

 

[Silveroddo]

Alaskas Wolf Man
Shadows on the Koyukuk
Grizzlies Don't Come Easy

 

[Carpet Capital Shyster]

Looking to add to the collection. Anyone read or currently reading any really good western/Alaskan type books?

I’ve got nothing original to add but for fiction:
“Lonesome Dove” is probably my favorite novel and it’s got a great western them. I also like a lot of McMurtry’s other books like the ones from the “Last Picture Show” set of books. (Duane and Sonny series???) set in a small oil town in west Texas. Cormac McCarthy was my other favorite contemporary novelist and “Blood Meridian”, “No Country for Old Men” and the Border Trilogy Set are all just amazing boos with western themes.

As for Non-Fixtion: “Undaunted Courage” about the Lewis and Clark voyage is fantastic. I’m currently re reading it. “Crazy Horse and Custer” by the same author, Stephen Ambrose is also excellent. I can also highly recommend “Empire of the Summer Moon” about the Comanche Nation. Just absolutely fantastic storytelling and doesn’t hold back on the sheer brutality of both sides.

One book I haven’t seen mentioned is “Blood and Thunder” by Hampton Sides. It’s a really well written history of the settling of New Mexico focusing on the Navajo Nation, along with Kit Carson. I really liked that book.

 

[Milestone522]

Just finished "The Thousand Mile Summer" by Colin Fletcher. Guy backpacked thru California from Mexico to Oregon via the Sierras back in 1958. Book was published in 1964. Very interesting book.

 

[TXRM1280]

Three Corners War is another good one about the New Mexico and arizona original history. Includes kit Carson, whose statue no longer stands in Santa Fe square, and the bosque radando saga with the Navajo and other tribes.


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