Reading

[robshilling]

What has everyone been reading this winter?

For me,

"Charles Larpentuer: Forty years a fur trader on the Upper Missouri." 

Dale Morgan's "Jedidiah Smith and the Opening of the American West."

Thorp and Bunker's "Crow Killer: the saga of Liver-Eating Johnson."

I also found a couple of the Mountain Man Sketchbooks at my local library.

Next up is one of the Jim Bridger books they have at the library.

[Jon]

Well mostly just been doing research, mostly fur company inventory lists and such. I did read Jedediah Smith by Barton H. Barbour and that was interesting. If you liked "Crow Killer", you should read Vardis Fisher's "Mountain Man". It's a pretty good read as well.

Jon

[teakmtn]

Well since I had shoulder surgery and pretty much had to stay subdued and on the couch, I got quite a bit of reading in. In no particular order;

"Tough Trip Through Paradise" by Andrew Garcia
"The Lost Trappers" by Coyner/Webber
"The Oregon Trail/ an American Saga" by Dary
"Three Years Among the Indians and Mexicans" by Thomas James

Reread;

"Across the Wide Missouri" by DeVoto
"The American Fur Trade of the Far West, Volume 2" by Chittenden

As well as constant perusal of the "Enclyclopdia of Trade Goods / Firearms of the Fur Trade" by Hanson, the sign language books, by Clark and by Seaton and by Thompkins.
The "Books of Buckskinning", Musuem of the Mountain Man Journals, Museum of the Fur Trade's Quarterlies, Back issues of "Tomahawk and Long Rifle", etc, etc...

I think I watched the "Revenant" twice and "the Mountain Man" twice as well.

I got a couple of months to go rehabbing my shoulder before I can sew leather, let alone get out on the ground and get some shooting in. So you can imagine, I'm going CRAZY.
But, it's been the right winter to stay on the couch as we've had as much as 15 feet of snow and an average of 6 feet in the House pasture and front yard and it's snowing now as I write this!
I think I'll go grab a book. Last night I started to reread Osbourne Russell's "Journal of a Trapper".

Jon, I'm gonna see if my local Library has the Vardis Fisher book. Thanks for the suggestion.
Doug T.