+- Historic Shooting Forums (http://historicshooting.com)
+-- Forum: General (http://historicshooting.com/forum-1.html)
+--- Forum: The front porch (http://historicshooting.com/forum-3.html)
+--- Thread: Good reading (/thread-713.html)
Good reading - Kurt - 11-11-2013
When I'm on the road and I have a tree to get into the internet or rainy snowy days like today I like to read old documentations of the old west.
This site has kept me busy on boring days.
http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/browse/when/reconstruction/general/indian-wars
Kurt
RE: Good reading - Don McDowell - 11-11-2013
Thanks Kurt, just made this thread a sticky
RE: Good reading - Kurt - 11-11-2013
It's a good one. I spend a lot of time on it when we are on the road or in the evenings. The thing I like is the expansions that are highlighted.
A lot of good history on it.
Here is one for wyoming. I down load a lot of this stuff on words so I can read when in up in the Mountains away from TV range or phones. http://www.wyohistory.org/topics/military
RE: Good reading - Smokin Guns John - 01-04-2014
I, too, like to read historical pieces. Things like:
"Journal of a Trapper;" A hunter's rambles among the wild regions of the Rocky Mountains, 1834-1843, as edited by Aubrey L. Haines. It is the story of one Osborne Russel as he journaled his experiences for those years.
"Lewis and Clark, Voices from the Trail" as edited from their journals by Michael Kerrigan.
Amazing to read and items upon which to reflect: the challenges, technology, desire, will to survive to name but a few.
Here is a link to Oklahoma history:
http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/toc.html
RE: Good reading - Kurt - 02-16-2014
Here is some good stuff on by Elmer Keith. http://www.elmerkeithshoot.org/GA/
RE: Good reading - Kurt - 01-17-2015
This will keep you occupied during the winter days.
http://riflemansjournal.blogspot.com/p/articles-index.html
http://riflemansjournal.blogspot.com/2011/04/history-directions-for-handling-pope.html
RE: Good reading - Old Jim - 01-17-2015
Speaking of Elmer, I have his Safari book, Big Bore Rifles, Hunting Big Game and Keith, all by his hand signed in the summer of 1976 at the ranch outside of Salmon. We had a fine visit. The "Hell" book, was not entirely by him, as other folks wished to make $$$ off his name at that time. My copy of his Safari book is his author's copy with all the publishers corrections in his handwritting on almost every page.
And when they lowered him into the ground, that bagpiper on a nearby knob almost made all attending wet our pants. You had to be there to understand. It truely was a solumn event.
Someday, somebody that remembers Elmer, needs to have these books.
Quite a guy,
RE: Good reading - Mike - 01-17-2015
In 1972 I met Elmer and had him autograph my copy of Sixguns. And I think his first autobiography, "Keith, by Keith," is better than "Hell, I Was There" but both are good reading. The day Elmer died the friend who called to let me know was Rex Applegate. Shoot sharp, Mike
RE: Good reading - Tom Herman - 06-05-2015
I jackpotted a copy of Sixguns at a yard sale a couple of months ago. I was elated to find it in the first place, and downright ecstatic to wrestle it away from the previous owner for only a buck!
Excellent reading!
-Tom
RE: Good reading - Don McDowell - 06-05-2015
Good lord, did you buy a lotto ticket as well?
