what are you reading currently

[chiye tanka]

New issue of Tactical Knives.

[rebel]

The Mountain Men. A history and lore of the first frontiersmen by George Laycock.

It has drawings of their equipment and how to use them along with documented quotes from men like Lewis and Clark.

I'm just 43 pages into the book and so far it has covered the fur trade. There is a nice section on beaver trapping. It talks about the primitive traps and how to make and use them along with the steel traps. It has a recipe for the "recipe", a sent attractant.

Anyway, If you can find the book or would like to read mine I'd recommend it.

Preface:
" The mountain man, weathered and wind-bitten, searched out the beaver, sent his packs of furs back to market, and in the process proved himself to be the ultimate outdoorsman. He was a survival specialist in the face of bitterly cold winters, antagonistic Indians and unbelievably powerful bears. He was unsurpassed as a marksman and skilled as a horseman and naturalist.

Typically the free trapper was young when he went to the mountains. He was single, poor, farm reared, and he had long hair, but kept his face shaved, except perhaps for a mustache. He was sinewy, powerful, and possessed of lightning reactions. He was perhaps the finest woodsman the country has ever see, surpassing even the Indian in the mastery of the outdoors.

These beaver trappers pushed back the wilderness frontier. They were explorers who led America into new regions deep in the Rocky Mountains and beyond. Our curiosity about the nature of the mountain men, and how they lived, is as sharp today as ever".

[rebel]

A couple of our regulars comes to mind with the quote from the preface.

[tonester]

im gonna start reading the dark tower series by stephen king.

[rebel]

The Mountain Men. A history and lore of the first frontiersmen by George Laycock.

It has drawings of their equipment and how to use them along with documented quotes from men like Lewis and Clark.

I'm just 43 pages into the book and so far it has covered the fur trade. There is a nice section on beaver trapping. It talks about the primitive traps and how to make and use them along with the steel traps. It has a recipe for the "recipe", a sent attractant.

Anyway, If you can find the book or would like to read mine I'd recommend it.

Preface:
" The mountain man, weathered and wind-bitten, searched out the beaver, sent his packs of furs back to market, and in the process proved himself to be the ultimate outdoorsman. He was a survival specialist in the face of bitterly cold winters, antagonistic Indians and unbelievably powerful bears. He was unsurpassed as a marksman and skilled as a horseman and naturalist.

Typically the free trapper was young when he went to the mountains. He was single, poor, farm reared, and he had long hair, but kept his face shaved, except perhaps for a mustache. He was sinewy, powerful, and possessed of lightning reactions. He was perhaps the finest woodsman the country has ever see, surpassing even the Indian in the mastery of the outdoors.

These beaver trappers pushed back the wilderness frontier. They were explorers who led America into new regions deep in the Rocky Mountains and beyond. Our curiosity about the nature of the mountain men, and how they lived, is as sharp today as ever".

It's such a good book I thought I'd bump it. Has anyone read this book?

[rebel]

I think it describes Hopeak, Coot , WE or Trax with Klkak and JM as the NG's.

[DOGMAN]

I think it describes Hopeak, Coot , WE or Trax with Klkak and JM as the NG's.

NG's??? National Guard's...Native Guides....Naked Gigelo's...Numbskull Grunts

[crashdive123]

I'd go with Naked Gigelo's

[DOGMAN]

Dang, I was hoping it meant Ninja Gunbattlers

[DOGMAN]

thanks, I hope to be heading in the same direction as the aforementioned fellas

[Gray Wolf]

I'm still reading Dick Proenneke's journals (1974-1980), it's 500 pages and I find myself going back and rereading different days in his journals. An amazing man!

I posted this in the General Survival area, but here's the link for those who didn't see it.
http://www.nps.gov/history/history/o.../proenneke.pdf

[FVR]

Since I drive alot, I do books on tape. Just finished today, Robert Ludlum, The Tristian Betrayal.

Two weeks back, it was Everast.

I do one or two books a week, depending on how many tapes.

It's alot better than listening to the ever sickening liberal and conservative talk radio. By now, I also tire of the playlists on the rock, country, r&b, and heavy metal radio stations.

[laughing beetle]

Since I drive alot, I do books on tape. Just finished today, Robert Ludlum, The Tristian Betrayal.

Two weeks back, it was Everast.

I do one or two books a week, depending on how many tapes.

It's alot better than listening to the ever sickening liberal and conservative talk radio. By now, I also tire of the playlists on the rock, country, r&b, and heavy metal radio stations.

I hear that!! I have been turning the radio off altogether when I am driving. I get more thinking done that way...

[bulrush]

Collapse by Jared Diamond, and textbooks.

Didn't he write "Guns, Germs, and Steel"? Fascinating video.

I recently finished "Blood Music" by Greg Bear. A sci-fi novel set in present times. It's about a guy who makes intelligent bacteria and they take over the US.

[wildWoman]

Just finished "Sense and sensibility" by Jane Austen, what a riot...very funny satirical writing. I love the whole obsession with who has how many pounds to live on a year...pounds the currency, not pounds of moose meat.

[trax]

I just happened to be passing through the hallway of a hotel recently and there was a Bible laying right there on the floor! So I picked it up and decided to read that, so far it's pretty good, I hope someone makes a movie out of it!

[chiye tanka]

Ohhh.............

[FVR]

Just started "South" The Endurance Expedition, by Ernest Shackleton. So far it is pretty good. The intro, they compare the adventure to Into Thin Air and The Perfect Storm. Both books that I have already read and thoroughly enjoyed. Into Thin Air, I not only read, but also listened to on books on tape, twice.

Another good book that I think South falls into it's category is the original account of Moby Dick. Not the fictional tale of Moby Dick, but the true accounts of a ship that the tale was based on. I forget the name this very moment.

Now I remember, The Essex. The true story of what Moby Dick was based on. Talk about sea survival.

[red lake]

Snow Walker's Companion: Winter Camping Skills for the North, apparently the Bible on winter camping

& Tundra by Farley Mowat. It is not actually by Farley Mowat but a collections of journals and logs from those who explored the Tundra region of Canada, Back, MacKenzie, Tyrell and more. Great stories of first contact, in depth survival stories and a few very interesting bits on native fare.

[ryaninmichigan]

Ted White and Blue......