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I just finished Indian Creek Chronicles by Pete From and want MORE! does anyone have any suggestions for more good survival/ mountain man books?
 
Not really a 'reading' book, but the SAS Survival handbook is awesome.
 
Hi Corpsman,
Here's a few in the same vein as From.
"The Frontiersmen","Wilderness Empire","The Wilderness War" and "Gateway To Empire", all written by Allan w. Eckert. Well researched historical fiction, all available at a public library.

and now for something completely different...

"Tunnel In The Sky", author; Robert Heinlein, sci-fi...A survival class graduation on an alien planet.

Mark
 
A recent release would be The Road (Cormac McCarthy). A fast read and great novel.

Older books- The Deerslayer (James Fennimore Cooper) and/or Last of the Mohicans. The movie is one of my favorites, but as is usually the case the book is much better.
 
Stephen King's - The Gunslinger series - gets pretty weird by the 4th book, but a great series!
 
my grandfather gave me last of the breed. i've yet to read it as i am still finishing Louis Lamour's Utah Blaine. It should be next though. I do prefer mountain man type stuff. Jeremiah Johnson and so on.
 
CorpsmanUP! said:
my grandfather gave me last of the breed. i've yet to read it as i am still finishing Louis Lamour's Utah Blaine. It should be next though. I do prefer mountain man type stuff. Jeremiah Johnson and so on.
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You'll like 'Last of the Breed'. :thumbup:

Doc
 
+1 for The Road by Cormac McCarthy, all his books are survival related...the road is one of the darkest themed books i have ever read about human nature in a survival situation...

As a young adult my favorite was Hatchet by Gary Paulson (about a teenager who survives in Northern Canadain Bush with just a hatchet...., I wrote him a letter as a 12-year-old and he wrote me a hand written letter back...not too many best sellers would do that now a days...

Also, Louis Lamoure is awesome reading West of Dodge right now...

The Postman by David Brin: don't worry it is way better than the crappy Kevin Costner movie...which it is "loosely based on."

Enjoy!
 
William W. Johnstone, Mountain man series
I have not read his books vet but I met Mr. Johnstone at a historical reenactment and found him to be very knowledgeable on history.
 
I read The Road last year, and it was a great book, although the most singularly disturbing one I have ever read. I literally still have nightmares about it. One of my criteria for a good book is if you still think about it a lot long after reading it, so The Road fits, but I doubt I could bear to read it a second time. I think it got to me so much because I read it not long after the birth of my daughter - there's a lot of hair-raising stuff in there if you're a new parent.

I do recommend it though.
 
How to Stay Alive in the Woods by Bradford Angier. An oldie, but well written and full of great info. You can get used copies of all of Angier's books dirt cheap on amazon.

-Parke1
 
aceofblades said:
Almost anything by Gary Paulson.

Would you care to tell us what that letter said?
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i just wrote to tell him i liked his novels and that I was interested in in scouting and such because of his books. I think his books really got me interested in the outdoors as an adolescent. He wrote me back about how he was preparing for the idorod at that time, and that his writing was motivated by his love of adventure in the outdoors. - what a great author!:thumbup:
 
anything by barry lopez...:D

a year in the maine woods.. by bernd heinrich..

the final fronteirsman.. by jason campbell..

a sand county almanac.. by aldo leopold..

radical simplicity.. by dan price..
 
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