Last three books you've read?

[mtnkid85]

Hey gang,

Looking for my next read, just finishing up my latest. For fun, what have you guys been reading? Anything you'd recommend?

My last three have been:

I will fight no more; forever- Merrill D. Beal. Great history of Chief Joesph and the Nez Perce. Unfortunate reminder of how bad the indians got screwed over.
Public land mulies- David Long. Second time perusing this one, lots of good info and I enjoy his stories.
The map that changed the world- Simon Winchester. This one took a while for me to get through. Interesting story about the birth of modern geology, but fairly technical and definitely geeky.

So what have your been reading lately?

 

[EastMT]

About halfway through Log of a cowboy, Andy Adams. True story of cattle drive from Brownsville to Western Montana. Realistic and not the classic crazy western.

Lonesome Dove, again

The Revenant

 

[Trr15]

I’ve always been intrigued by US history, particularly the settlement of the west. My last three books are:
American Buffalo by Steven Rinella
Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C. Gwynn
The Heart of Everything That is by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin

All three are fantastic books and definitely worth the time.


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[Milestone522]

Battle of Long Tan (Danger Close Aussie battle in Vietnam 1966)

Hunting Big Mule Deer, Robby Denning (Great resource of info)

Alone at Dawn (MOH recipient John Chapman USAF)

All three were great reads.

 

[mtnkid85]

American Buffalo by Steven Rinella
That one is on my short list, I've got it in my amazon cart.

 

[P Carter]

I’ll second empire of the summer moon. Not hunting related, but I enjoyed 1491 and 1493 by Charles Mann as well. I just got done with Who We Are and How We Got Here by David reich and it’s really good. I only mention these because they seem consistent with the chief joseph and map books you mention.

 

[ODB]

Elephant Hunting in East Equatorial Africa- Arthur Neumann

The Old Way (about the San Bushmen) Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

The Shadow of Kilimanjaro - Rick Ridgeway

 

[mlgc20]

Centennial - James Michener
What If We’re Wrong - Chuck Klosterman
Against the Gods - Peter Bernstein

 

[mt100gr.]

Definitely read American Buffalo.

I just read 'Rangers, trappers, and trailblazers' by John Fraley. Some tough old sunsabitches ran around these mountains before us....very interesting history of the Bob and northern MT wildernesses.

Right now I am reading 'why we hunt' by Aaron Futrell. Wife got it for me for Xmas - not far into it but it's an interesting justification for hunting's role in this day and age.

 

[Squamch]

A beast the colour of winter by Douglas Chadwick. About mountain goats.
The legend of Pan Phillips, by Jack Brown. A semi biographical book about Pan Phillips, an old time cowboy here in BC. A man who was driving cattle cross country in the 70s.
He died in 83 at 72 years old.

Great deceptions of world war 2 was good too, about intrigue and secrets of world war two. For example the British having a department made up of magicians and theatre folks, who, among other things, once hid a town, and recreated it one bay over, using models of vehicles and buildings. Then when the Luftwaffe bombed the fake town, they uncovered piles of rubble previously hidden under camo tarps, so airborne observers would see the decimated town.
Or Churchill allowing....I forget what town... to be bombed, to prevent the Nazis from seeing the true extent of their intelligence gathering services.

Another good one I read recently was "Rise and Kill First." I can't recall the author, but it was a history of Israel's state sanctioned killings. Some pretty staggering revelations about military technology in there. Also the fascinating history of the various organizations that have sanctioned and carried out various hits across the globe, and how some of the hits have gone wrong.

 

[gumbl3]

dead mountain, agent storm, .. can't remember before that, twas hunting season

 

[DAJtheHunter]

Rinnela’s buffalo book
Tribe by Sebastian Juenger
Hell I Was There by Elmer Keith

Guns Germs and Steel is on deck by Jarrod Diamond


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[longspeak74]

All the Pretty Horses, Darker Than Night and Whitetail Tactics of the Pros. Watership Down is next up on my list, I read it once a year.

 

[Trr15]

Rinnela’s buffalo book
Tribe by Sebastian Juenger
Hell I Was There by Elmer Keith

Guns Germs and Steel is on deck by Jarrod Diamond


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Tribe is a great read. I read “guns, germs and steel” years ago and it’s a good one too. Might actually read it again soon.


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[Trr15]

I’ll second empire of the summer moon. Not hunting related, but I enjoyed 1491 and 1493 by Charles Mann as well. I just got done with Who We Are and How We Got Here by David reich and it’s really good. I only mention these because they seem consistent with the chief joseph and map books you mention.

If you like Empire of the Summer Moon, you’ll definitely enjoy The Heart of Everything That Is. They’re similar books, but while the former is about the Comanche conflicts in TX, this one is primarily about the conflict with the Lakota in Wyoming and Montana at Fort Kearney and along the Bozeman trail.


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[jspradley]

Currently reading several books

Necroscope 3 by Brian Lumley
Sex at Dawn by Christopher Ryan
The Big Picture by Sean Carroll
Metro 2035 by Dmitry Glukhovsky

 

[timekiller13]

On Killing- Lt Col Dave Grossman
The Silmarillion- JRR Tolkein
His Dark Materials Series- Phillip pullman

 

[netman]

A book on Judo, Robbys book and a book about Bobby Knight.

 

[dirtclod Az.]

A Sand County Almanac-Aldo Leopold
Walden-Henry David Thereau
Field and Stream and Outdoor Life mags.〽

 

[zacattack]

Recently finished:
American Buffalo
Undaunted Courage
Currently reading It and Jim Bridger Mountain Man