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When I say obscure books, no, I don't mean leatherbound copies of occult books from the 19th century, I mean hard to find late 20th century to 21st century books.

While I don't believe in bigfoot for example, I love to listen to podcasts about it and read books about it. The stories people concoct are outrageous and downright entertaining sometimes. Two books that are out of print and quite expensive in some spots, especially tough when you don't use a credit card, are Missing 411, about people abducted by bigfoot. The other one is a book written by one of my fathers friends, actually a collection of his local newspaper articles. This guy is an environmental advocate, but believes in bigfoot, actually stating he hit one in a local state park. The guy is a very interesting character, my father would take rescued turtles to him. Several years back, the guy had had some bad health issues and my father was quite worried about him. Missing 411 for me, and my fathers buddy's book for my father.

I've also hoped of finding an original printing of a Horace Kephart book in a used bookstore, oh well.

What hard to find books are you on the hunt for?
 
The original Kephart books as published would actually be two books. I have a copy downloaded to my computer, but I thinking about buying a hard copy.
 
I bought a reprint from the early 2000s, a university printing. It's held together pretty well, getting dog eared.
 
I like that book for the sense of history it captures in the Smoky Mt area and in part what it was like to live in a fairly remote area in the late-1800's and early 1900's (pre-automobile). One thing I get for that book is Horace Kephart really didn't care for Indians, but that was probably typical of white people living in an area populated by American Indians. I like Kindle's, but that is one I would prefer in a bound copy. I almost buy it just about every time I visit the Smoky Mt NP.
 
I purchased quite a few of his other books. Some are basically pamphlets, but others are full length books, like Our Southern Highlanders, he did write a few about the Indians of the Smoky Mountains, and one about the Indian wars in PA.
 
silenthunterstudios said:
When I say obscure books, no, I don't mean leatherbound copies of occult books from the 19th century, I mean hard to find late 20th century to 21st century books.

While I don't believe in bigfoot for example, I love to listen to podcasts about it and read books about it. The stories people concoct are outrageous and downright entertaining sometimes. Two books that are out of print and quite expensive in some spots, especially tough when you don't use a credit card, are Missing 411, about people abducted by bigfoot. The other one is a book written by one of my fathers friends, actually a collection of his local newspaper articles. This guy is an environmental advocate, but believes in bigfoot, actually stating he hit one in a local state park. The guy is a very interesting character, my father would take rescued turtles to him. Several years back, the guy had had some bad health issues and my father was quite worried about him. Missing 411 for me, and my fathers buddy's book for my father.

I've also hoped of finding an original printing of a Horace Kephart book in a used bookstore, oh well.

What hard to find books are you on the hunt for?
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Hi.

I have all the Missing 411 books that I got directly off of David Paulides' (the author) website. I can't recall the exact web address at the moment, but I'm sure if you google David Paulides and Missing 411 it will come up. There are actually about 5 or 6 books in the Missing 411 series. I would recommend starting off with either the Western United States one or the Eastern United States one. They're not exactly cheap, about $25 apiece, plus shipping. He warns people not to buy them off of Amazon or other such sites, where sellers jack up the prices of his books to a ridiculous degree. BTW, David Paulides does NOT say that the people in the Missing 411 books are abducted by Bigfoot. He gives no personal opinions as to what MIGHT be the cause or causes of the people who go missing in highly unusual circumstances that follow very clear patterns. Even though he is a Bigfoot researcher, he does not say he believes that is the cause or not. They are simply presented as cases where people have gone missing, and not due to conventional reasons.

As for me, although I've never personally seen anything like a Bigfoot, I would never outright say that every person who claims to have seen one is a liar, is imagining/high, or is mistaking a bear for one. I'm not saying everyone should believe or disbelieve, but I keep an open mind about it. I (and some others who happened to be with me on a couple of occasions) have had other types of experiences more than once in my life that most people would probably say are BS or totally outrageous, but I (we) know they happened. There are a LOT of things in this world that we do not know or understand.

Jim
 
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The Book of Colt Firearms by Sutherland & Wilson is fairly obscure and a must have for Colt collectors. The fun ended when Wilson did a re-print (after
Sutherland died) and the price on the originals dropped like a rock. Some of the other Colt reference books are pretty uncommon.
 
I had heard Paulides on older podcasts, no longer producing new podcasts, reference bigfoot as the cause. In later, more recent and active podcasts, he has said he will not comment on what it is.
 
OK, I haven't heard those older podcasts. They must have been from a good while ago, because I've been following Paulides' work for a few years now, since not too long after he started investigating and discussing the missing persons thing. If anything, what is happening in at least several of these cases is a lot more more bizarre than the idea of being 'kidnapped by a bigfoot'. Of course, there could be, and most likely are, multiple different causes. But they tend to follow very similar/consistent patterns not seen in conventional disappearance cases (otherwise he wouldn't include them in his research).

Jim
 
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