The Well Read Outdoorsman

[2rocky]

Aside from pure "Hunting How-To" books, what books would you have on your shelf if you were going to spend a snowy winter away from town with no television or computer?

I'm in varying stages of a couple at the morning.

Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy. I'm near the end of the Crossing. I think I would have his other books, The Road, and No country for Old men on hand

While at the California Trail Interpretive Center Near Elko, NV I picked up So Rugged and Mountainous,Blazing the Trails to Oregon and California, 1812-1848
. Lots of Facts in here and I find myself looking places up in the DeLorme atlas.

Other Ideas?

 

[Ben Lamb]

Edmund Morris' 3 part biography of Theodore Roosevelt

TR's The Wilderness Hunter/American Big Game Hunting

A couple of Capstick books

I've not read Rinnela's books so those would be on the shelf

In Darkest Africa - Henry M. Stanley

Hemingway's short story anthology & 3-4 novels

How UN is going to make is so I can't buy a Howa and how to prove it

Hunter S. Thomspon selected titles (2-3)

Big Game of North America

Pronghorn: Ecology & Management

& a vhs copy of Surviving the Game

 

[MKotur325]

"Horn of the Hunter" Robert Rurark also, "Use Enough Gun" Robert Rurark

On the lighter side, fishing stories "Standing in a River Waving a Stick" or "Death Taxes and Leaky Waders" John Gierach

To further the Search for Knowledge about shooting and external ballistics, "Applied Ballistics for the Long-Range Shooting" Brian Litz

Forth and Finally Anything by Russell Annabel, Hunting and fishing stories in AK.

 

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Thompson wrote hunting stories?

I'm a big fan of Rinella's writing. His bison book is one of my all time favorites.

Rick Bass is enjoyable in moderation, and he's got some really good hunting stories mixed in his books.

 

[Ben Lamb]

Thompson wrote hunting stories?

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Hunting is a broad topic. No species were identified.

 

[ERSS]

I have enjoyed the Terry C Johnstons series that starts with Carry the Wind in the past.

Currently I read every book in the Joe Pickett series by CJ Box as soon as it comes out.

 

[noharleyyet]

Everything McCarthy has penned, especially 'Blood Meridian' and 'Suttree'.

Robert Parker's westerns; 'Appaloosa', 'Brimstone', 'Resolution', and 'Blue Eyed Devil'.

John Treadwell Nichol's New Mexico trilogy."The Milagro Beanfield War', The Magic Bus', and 'The Nirvana Blues'.

John le Carre, James Lee Burke, Thomas Harris, Stephen Hunter's Bob Lee Swagger collection,

'Lonesome Dove', 'Horseman Pass By' (Hud), 'Anything For Billy', and Last Picture Show'. are my McMurtry favorites.

Hunter thompson and PJ ORourke

 

[emrah1028]

Atlas Shrugged. Not hunting related but still.

Emrah

 

[ERSS]

Everything McCarthy has penned, especially 'Blood Meridian' and 'Suttree'.

Robert Parker's westerns; 'Appaloosa', 'Brimstone', 'Resolution', and 'Blue Eyed Devil'.

John Treadwell Nichol's New Mexico trilogy."The Milagro Beanfield War', The Magic Bus', and 'The Nirvana Blues'.

John le Carre, James Lee Burke, Thomas Harris, Stephen Hunter's Bob Lee Swagger collection,

'Lonesome Dove', 'Horseman Pass By' (Hud), 'Anything For Billy', and Last Picture Show'. are my McMurtry favorites.

Hunter thompson and PJ ORourke

Couldn't agree more with Stephen Hunter's Bob Lee Swagger collection, gotta be close to the top of the list

 

[Redwood]

Lonesome dove series, undaunted courage, and for the fantasy geek in me the game of thrones series.

 

[Nameless Range]

Elers Koch was a legendary Forest Ranger of the Bitterroot Range, and wrote a pretty good book about growing up in the early 1900's version of Montana and the early Forest Service called, Forty Years a Forester.
But he also wrote a fictional adventure-tale of some trappers getting snowed in deep in the Lochsa for the winter called The High Trail. They spend a brutal winter in a cabin under siege by a hyper-rational pack of wolves . It's Badass Sensationalism. I haven't read it for a few years and have been meaning to dig it up. Any book about the Lochsa is a good winter book.

 

[Foxtrot1]

Every outdoorsman should read "A Sand County Almanac" by Aldo Leupold at some point. I also enjoyed WD Bells books on Africa and Jim Corbetts books on India.

 

[bowhuntmontana]

I read James Fennimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans at least once a year. Love that one. I am a bit jealous of the idea of spending some serious time unplugged and reading the good stuff.

 

[Bokeh]

Just finished Man Eaters of Kumaon by Corbett. Gave it to my son and he loved it. Corbett was incredible. Written in the 1940's but timeless.

Also recommend The Earth Is Enough by Harry Middleton. More of a fishing book, but top notch.

 

[Hem]

Capstick is a fine choice.
Hemingway
Atcheson


Hunter Thompson made his success writing about drug abuse,but his one real passion in life was hunting elk....believe it,or not.

 

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Hunter Thompson made his success writing about drug abuse,but his one real passion in life was hunting elk....believe it,or not.

Really? I'd love to read anything about that if you have it.

 

[Ben Lamb]

Just finished Man Eaters of Kumaon by Corbett. Gave it to my son and he loved it. Corbett was incredible. Written in the 1940's but timeless.

I'll have to check out the Corbett Book. I loved Patterson's Maneaters of Tsavo (What Ghost & the Darkness was based off of). Fascinating, those maneaters.

 

[Devil Diver Down]

Capstick is a fine choice.
Hemingway
Atcheson


Hunter Thompson made his success writing about drug abuse,but his one real passion in life was hunting elk....believe it,or not.

I'd like to read on that, too. My youngest is named after him - not to indulge in elicits like the author, but to be an original like him. My oldest is named after one of Twain's greatest characters - Sawyer. If I ever get another day off of work and am without a huntable tag or fishable stream nearby, and no quail to get my dog on - I might finish the book I've been un-writing for many years.

 

[noharleyyet]

Need to add Abbey's 'Monkey Wrench Gang'

 

[mtlion]

Sometimes I think I might read too much. I go through books like most guys go through toilet paper and I'm always looking for something new to read.

Roosevelt was mentioned, I'll throw in The Wilderness Hunter as well as Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail. My favorite hunting writer hands down.

Another of my favorite authors is James Schultz...One of the best books I've read is My Life as an Indian, also check out Floating on the Missouri.

Garcia's Tough Trip Through Paradise is another good one.

For non-hunting/outdoors I'd put Vonnegut at the top of my list.