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TacticalWargames

January 18, 2016, 08:23:59 AM
After watching The Revenant I'd love to read some more on the frontiers men. So does anyone know of any books worth reading on the subject?

Thanks

Nefaro

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January 18, 2016, 08:47:40 AM Last Edit: January 18, 2016, 08:52:36 AM by Nefaro
Quote from: TacticalWargames on January 18, 2016, 08:23:59 AM
After watching The Revenant I'd love to read some more on the frontiers men. So does anyone know of any books worth reading on the subject?

Thanks

You talking about pre-settlement Trapper types?

I'm not sure if there is much in the way of autobiographies for those guys.  Being the type of people they were, so long ago, they probably weren't often very literate or inclined to write much.


Here's an e-book, an old pre-ACW thing written by a "travel writer" of the period. 

Trappers In The West

http://www.amazon.com/Trappers-Far-West-Thrilling-Adventures-ebook/dp/B019VU5946/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1453124336&sr=8-3&keywords=trappers+in+the+west

Another that may be better:

Some True Adventures in the Life of Hugh Glass, a Hunter and Trapper on the Missouri River (which is what the movie was based on)

http://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Glass-Hunter-Trapper-Missouri-ebook/dp/B0190QJE1A/ref=pd_sim_sbs_351_3?ie=UTF8&dpID=51I9Rt0xOyL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR111%2C160_&refRID=19YJY8E6YNJ1MCA8FKSR

Being in the public domain, it costs little for the kindle version.  I'd be wary taking the literature, directly from the period, at face value.  Will probably be full of exaggerations.  The Travel Writers, and Frontiersmen themselves, had a reputation for telling some pretty tall tales.

There are some other more modern writings on Fur Traders & such.  Not sure which would include tidbits of biographical stories, though.


There are probably a few other oldies like those, from the period, available on Amazon & elsewhere.

bbmike

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January 18, 2016, 08:59:59 AM
The movie Jeremiah Johnson with Robert Redford was based on Crow Killer: The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson by Raymond Thorp and Robert Bunker as well as Vardis Fisher's Mountain Man. I haven't read either but Jeremiah Johnson was good.
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January 18, 2016, 09:01:55 AM
Lord Grizzly

Nefaro

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January 18, 2016, 09:07:48 AM
There was some "buried treasure" legend from the period IIRC. 

After the party burying the box(es) of coins somewhere in Colorado (?) was killed by natives and one wounded dude managed to escape back to civilization.  People went back out to try finding it.  Probably a book about it somewhere.

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January 18, 2016, 10:15:39 AM
Flashman and the Redskins.

TacticalWargames

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January 18, 2016, 12:30:54 PM
Looking I suppose a book about their lives, exploration, trading companies etc ec.

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January 18, 2016, 01:37:53 PM
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January 18, 2016, 07:04:50 PM
Although it's fiction, Jack London's Call of the Wild might be something you are interested in.
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January 18, 2016, 08:56:37 PM
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January 19, 2016, 10:21:50 AM
Thanks everyone.

Saying I want Non Fiction I've come across this fiction book on Amazon.

The Frontiersmen: A Narrative by Allan W. Eckert

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0945084919?colid=2VYVCXQRXDQX1&coliid=I3AAKBGVG0DC3G&ref_=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl

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January 20, 2016, 11:43:31 AM
How about, " The Real Unexplored Territory-- My Life in the Bush" by Starfury. It's SCARY.  :2funny:
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January 23, 2016, 01:28:17 PM
^That's no bush.
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January 30, 2016, 02:03:05 AM Last Edit: January 30, 2016, 02:04:47 AM by Nefaro
Quote from: besilarius on January 18, 2016, 08:56:37 PM
Nefaro, that sounds like the Lost Dutchman mine in the Superstition mountains.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiWrdbb4rTKAhVEJiYKHebWBKwQFggdMAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FLost_Dutchman%27s_Gold_Mine&usg=AFQjCNGbN2GQNIIvnWbaGOvtvhcY9mZFrA&sig2=Sy57xV4If8WlukCg6z5H7g


Not the one I was talking about. 

Lost Dutchman's Mine is in AZ or NM iirc.   This one wasn't a mine but a large buried cache supposedly in CO. 

One survivor makes it out and then the quest to go back & get it turns into another treacherous kill-fest for the next party.  And so on. 
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