Favorite novels that feature traditional knives, guys?

Lonesome Dove, one of the best books I've ever read. Maybe I will do a re-read--wonder how it will stand up...
 
Raymond1000 said:
Stuart Edward White’s The Long Rifle tells the story of Andy Burnett learning to become a beaver trapping Mountain Man in the early nineteenth century. Knives are used throughout the book.
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Same with Mountain Man: A Novel of Male and Female in the Early American West by Vardis Fisher

He had a "Green River" knife like everyone else
And a hatchet;)
 
6.0stroker said:
:thumbup:CANNOT go wrong with William Johnstone Especially the Mountain Man series(lots of bowie knife usage;)) Or Elmer Kelton from San Angelo TX. is an excellent writer of Western reading!


Larry McMurtry"s (Lonesome Dove series) as well as others he writes are well done!




Most Western writers employ some bowie knives in their writing the "Silent Killer"!!!:D UH OH that wasn't very PC of me!:p;)
Shawn
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Elmer Kelton was the best western writer ever.
 
mnblade said:
If you could only read 3 of his books, which would you pick?

-- Mark
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"The Time It Never Rained"

"The Good Old Boys"

"Manhunters"

And I admit that calling him a great writer is pretty subjective but I have read a lot of the western writers, current day and back in time, and Elmer Kelton just has a way of writing that seems to me to be very appealing to me.
 
Capt. Carl said:
Amen! Taken from wikipedia:



(Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn)



It's what drove me to get a barlow!
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It's what drove me to get a pocket knife! At about 9.

Yes a Barlow, which I still think is about the perfect pocket knife, not too big or too little.

Which Star Trek was which Heinlein?
 
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davek14 said:
Which Star Trek was which Heinlein?
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IIRC, several Star Trek episodes from the original series had similar plot structures to those of Heinlein stories. One which pops to mind is the one in which Kirk's brother dies when his colony is attacked by aliens which attach to the back and control the host's mind. Heinlein had a book Puppet Masters in which an alien of that type was the adversary.
 
Ahhh yes, thanks. Great episode, sorry to derail. Google would be my friend here, off to search I go.
 
In the novel True Grit Rooster Cogburn carries a dirk knife and Ned Pepper uses a barlow to cut the strap on a mail bag.
 
Not a novel, but Faulkner's short story "Two Soldiers" features a young man's pocket knife repeatedly. I don't recall if Ol' William specified a pattern, but I always pictured a full-sized trapper when reading the story.

Several of Faulkner's other stories and novels feature knives, guns, etc.

Frosty
 
At the Stephen King novels "The Dark Tower"-saga, the main protagonist gunslinger Roland Deschain always used to carry a fixed blade which was always razor sharp and had a pretty worn out leather sheath.
In the second novel of the seven novel this knife was cutting the bags of cocaine from the body of Eddie Dean.

I love these novels. Takes a long time read. But I read them every two years. Don t know why, but great books.

Kind regards
Andi
 
Robert B Parker, normally a mystery writer, wrote several terrific westerns. They were:

Appaloosa, 2005
Resolution, 2008
Brimstone, 2009
Blue-eyed devil, 2010

Great books, give them a try.

Chris-
 
Thanks for the tips, Chris! I just stumbled across the Spur Awards, which honor the year's best Western fiction. You can see all the winners here. Makes for a pretty good wish list! :thumbup:

-- Mark
 
Right now, I'm re-reading Robert Ruark's The Old Man's Boy Grows Older. The sequel too The Old Man and The Boy.
Two very awesome books that never get old, they are a couple favorites of mine and they bring back a lot of memories, even if they aren't all mine.

Chapter 8 is entitled, Same Knife; Different Boy.
It's full of mention concerning traditional knives and there are many great quotes.

A few I really like,

"As the Boy, I owned a knife from the time I was six.,"The Knife, " the Old Man said, "is a tool, and a dangerous one. You ain't supposed to carry it open, and when you cut, always cut away from you. Keep it sharp, because if it's dull it ain't any use for what it's made for. But whittle away from you".

"We all carried knives- starting with the twenty-five-cent barlow knives and working up to things with really wicked ripping blades for skinning animals and cleaning fish".

"I would rather have gone without my pants than my pocket knife".

"There wasn't a day when that dangerous weapon didn't come into use a dozen times".
 
Just a heads up Lonesome Dove is being run on a station I didn't know I had until now called Reelz, two parts a night.
 
My first novel has an imperial fish knife on the cover. My second novel features an old timer very prominently. I don't think I can say anything about it cause of spam rules, but it was fun to make a knife the character in a book. Cause it really is one of the characters.
 
Just finished the second Repairman Jack novel and towards the end of it he makes a nice little booby trap with a Swiss Army knife
 
I share many of these favorites.

No one has mentioned Bernard Cornwell, knives, daggers, swords; any kind of lethal edged instrument. Both the Richard Sharp series (Peninsular War) & the Warlord series.
Also George Macdonald Fraser, very politically incorrect but historically correct & great fun in the Flashman series.

Tom
 
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