Posting regarding Metis

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FullerH

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Bob, I know that you just got back, but did you see my posting under the "Company Name" thread? I mentioned a series of mysteries set among the Metis (Matise) people of Eastern Montana, where they fled after the Riel Rebellion. Very black humor and very good reads. They are the Gabriel DuPre stories by Peter Bowen.

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Walk in the Light,
Hugh
 
FullerH
Thanks for reminding me I am hopping over to Amazon Books and look those up. I love a good read.


Bob Taylor

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Some days it's not worth chewing through the restraints and escaping.
 
One of my good freinds is Metis, I recently went to a town Called Zortman here in Montana where he lives and we went down to the Missouri Breaks and roasted up a Buffalo Hump with a couple other guys and had quite the camp there for a day or 2. He is a ki9ck, he is missing an arm from a ranching accident and uses his hook to dig holes, turn the Hump, etc, he snuck uop behind me and put his hand and hook in front of me and says, gusee who? ha ha. The he will lick his hook and hold it up in the wind to see which way the wind is blowing. He is a gas! I am Cherokee and Cree, and the Metis are mostly French/Cree mix around here. Anyway, this has nothing to do with knives, but take the time to look Zortman up on a map, you cant get there form here! ha ha
 
Bob, I was wondering if you got any of Peter Bowen's Gabriel DuPre books. If you did, how do you like them? I find them very good reads and very funny in a black sort of way.

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Walk in the Light,
Hugh
 
FullerH
Read dosn't that require free time? I have put a few books on order and will eventualy get time to read them

Bob Taylor

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Some days it's not worth chewing through the restraints and escaping.
 
FullerH - Thanks for mentioning Peter Bowen's
books - Have read about 4 of them & they are a great read - a little difficult to get use to Dupre's speech patterns at first, but great after I got use to them. Reminds me of Tony Hillerman's books on the Navajo Tribal Police
 
Bob, I did not mean to sound as if I were on your case, I just wanted to know what you thought, given your background. I love the books and, as my wife has said, I am a book pusher. I told her that there are worse things that I could push, so she shut up.

Dawg, have you tried Margaret Coel's books about the Arapahos on the Wind River Res. in Wyoming. They are a quite good.

Finally, guys, my name is Hugh. My record name is how I am known at work and I put it in when I started, way back when, and I do not see how to change it without loosing the record of my posts.

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Walk in the Light,
Hugh
 
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