Good writing

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Have read....will again later this evening. One of my favorite batchit crazy bastages HST

A unique American treasure. I wish everyone read his work. There's nothing else like it.

 

[noharleyyet]

A unique American treasure. I wish everyone read his work. There's nothing else like it.

Fear & Loathing writing device factoid;

ro·man à clef
noun
1. a novel in which real people or events appear with invented names.

 

[Irrelevant]

The boys and the lake: How two backcountry experts met death in Yellowstone - WyoFile

Two years after a tragedy on Shoshone Lake, rangers reveal details of the search for two lost canoeists, including one who remains missing.

wyofile.com

Man, talk about a sobering reminder to wear you fkn life jacket.

 

[ismith]

The Lochsa Story: Land Ethics in the Bitterroot Mountains By Bud Moore

 

[Jbotto]

The boys and the lake: How two backcountry experts met death in Yellowstone - WyoFile

Two years after a tragedy on Shoshone Lake, rangers reveal details of the search for two lost canoeists, including one who remains missing.

wyofile.com

Man, talk about a sobering reminder to wear you fkn life jacket.

That was a really good piece on those two gentlemen. Came away with the same thought. No matter how experienced….

 

[Oradanny]

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This one hit me pretty hard. My kids aren't really kids anymore, and I, well shit, I'm my parents.

Passage

Summer of 1969. Two years before I came along. I look at old photographs a lot these days, trying to divine who I was, and who I may become. It helps to recall memories that are spun into words, words into paragraphs, paragraphs into passages, and — eventually — passages into a story.

chadlove.substack.com

 

[noharleyyet]

 

[44hunter45]

The Lochsa Story: Land Ethics in the Bitterroot Mountains By Bud Moore

I'm going to have to find this. I'm not sure how I've never heard of it.

 

[ismith]

I'm going to have to find this. I'm not sure who I've never heard of it.

It’s a great read!

 

[Caseknife]

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And the counterpart to that, The Climb by Anatoli Boukreev

 

[Tml19521]

Use to have a copy should be in my auto shop

 

[ismith]

So I thought about this a bit more during the 8 hrs of my life recently spent on a plane.

Here are my top short stories:
1. Short Happy Life of Francis McComber - Hemingway https://faculty.washington.edu/jdb/303/Hemingway/The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber.pdf
2. A River Runs Through It - Maclean https://sembawangtutor.files.wordpr...rough-it-and-other-stories-maclean-norman.pdf
2b. if RRTI is too long, then I'd swap in Logging and Pimping and "Your Pal, Jim".
3. Legends of the Fall - Harrison
4. Cowboy - McGuane https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/09/19/cowboy-2
5. Big Two Hearted River - Hemingway https://xroads.virginia.edu/~DRBR/hem_river.html

What else you guys got? I feel like there's at least one great one in Peterson's collection A Hunter's Heart, but I'm drawing a blank.

Killer selection, “Honey Badger” comes to mind.

 

[Irrelevant]

Killer selection, “Honey Badger” comes to mind.

Link or author?

 

[ismith]

Link or author?

The Honey Badger book by Robert Ruark

 

[OleRedbeard]

So I thought about this a bit more during the 8 hrs of my life recently spent on a plane.

Here are my top short stories:
1. Short Happy Life of Francis McComber - Hemingway https://faculty.washington.edu/jdb/303/Hemingway/The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber.pdf
2. A River Runs Through It - Maclean https://sembawangtutor.files.wordpr...rough-it-and-other-stories-maclean-norman.pdf
2b. if RRTI is too long, then I'd swap in Logging and Pimping and "Your Pal, Jim".
3. Legends of the Fall - Harrison
4. Cowboy - McGuane https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/09/19/cowboy-2
5. Big Two Hearted River - Hemingway https://xroads.virginia.edu/~DRBR/hem_river.html

What else you guys got? I feel like there's at least one great one in Peterson's collection A Hunter's Heart, but I'm drawing a blank.

Great reads all of them!!
Ill add.. The Old Man and the Boy... mostly because it really hits close to home with me as a younger man.
The Green Hills of Africa and anything by Burton L. Spiller.

 

[OleRedbeard]

Link or author?

Robert Ruark.

 

[Irrelevant]

Again, trying to keep it short and if possible, available free online (with a link).

 

[Irrelevant]

The Other American Border Towns

Notes from the declining Empire State.

www.thefp.com