Your Best Book Pick

[ffcody]

The Mission The Men and Me- Pete Blaber I have also been getting into John Muir's writings.

 

[bullshooter]

Wow! Thanks everyone...have enough suggestions that I will have to travel to Montana on a deer hunt just to get all this material read!

 

[bbrown]

Another pretty good read is Wildlife Wars by Terry Groz. Bunch of stories from one of California's first game wardens and a his adventures.

 

[2rocky]

My usual MO is to pick up a book from one of the Museums we always seem to stop at on our way to our hunting destination.

The Latest was from the California Trail interpretive center near Elko.

So Rugged and Mountainous: Blazing the Trails to Oregon and California, 1812-1848 (Overland West Series)
Will Bagley

Other Museums that I've bought books from include the Western Folklife Center in Elko, The Museum of the Mountain man in Pinedale, Wyoming The Wildlife art Museum in Jackson, The RMEF visitors center in Missoula, MT, Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Any National Park Visitor Center, you get the idea...

 

[Preston Lay]

I will 2nd the CJ Box books. Just finished a great read, "Wolfer" by Carter Niemeyer

 

[robby denning]

2rocky, those books are always cool and sometimes you can even find hunting spots from them- really. I have.

Just started Billy Molls book last night. It's a page-turner! I'll do a review on the Rok Blog sometime.

 

[shaun]

I am going to start an oldie but a goodie that has been sitting in my closet for about 15years its The Best of Sports Afield.

 

[digger]

Alaskas Wolfman by Reardon.All about Frank Glasser a wolf hunter in Alaska from 1915 to 1955.
Or pick up A Walk In The Woods by Bill Bryson...hilarious.

 

[HighHunter1232]

I enjoyed, Alone In The Wilderness, by Dick Proenneke

 

[Trout bum]

Alone In The Wilderness is a good one. Dick Proeneke was a stud. You can read his unedited journal for free through the NFS website. Covers the years after the first edited book. Good stuff for sure.

 

[doncarpenter]

Castner's Cutthroats by Jim Rearden. They call it a docu-drama which I guess means its based on facts but is a made up story. It's about the Alaskan scouts during WWII. Good read.

 

[Floorguy]

I really like Duncan Gilchrist's books

 

[Soutie]

Two books i would recommend are,
Fearless by Eric Blehm about a great american hero Navy SEAL Adam Brown and alsoUnbroken by Laura Hillenbrand

 

[dotman]

"Indian Creek Chronicles" by Pete Fromm.

Is this the guy from Great Falls that spent a winter in a forest service cabin after college?

 

[Matt Cashell]

Is this the guy from Great Falls that spent a winter in a forest service cabin after college?

Close.

He was from WI, and spent a winter in a tent in the Selway monitoring salmon egg nurseries. Awesome story.

 

[unm1136]

Two books i would recommend are,
Fearless by Eric Blehm about a great american hero Navy SEAL Adam Brown and alsoUnbroken by Laura Hillenbrand

Fantastic book. Tearjerker.

pat

 

[IrishnId]

Since you guys already put Lone Survivor, and American Sniper out there. I'll recommend The Outpost, and the four Howard Copenhaver books. Copenhaver was one of the first outfitters in the Bob Marshall wilderness area. Hard to find books, but there's a few floating around. He was from Ovando, MT.

 

[Zackman]

I really enjoyed the book "Devil in the White City."

As far as an outdoor book, anything by Capstick is a great read!

 

[kaboku68]

Zane grey wander in the wasteland. Old man and the boy by rr. Or bows on the little delta by Glenn st Charles.

 

[BroodBuster]

Undaunted Courage is an excellent book!

Anything by Teddy Roosevelt is pretty entertaining.

I just finished the book "Boys in the Boat." It's about UW's 1936 crew team that went on to win the '36 gold in front of Hitler's Germany. Anybody who thinks we've got it bad in today's world or that backcountry hunting is the toughest pursuit out there needs to give this book a read. Some tough SOB's on that boat!

I mostly read non-fiction and this is one of the best I've read in a decade.