What are you currently reading?

[Trial153]

The Big Burn by Timothy Egan.....not sure how I missed reading it for so long ...its excellent

 

[Trial153]

Tales From No Where,
a collection of short tales, edited by Don George

 

[wa_archer]

The Old Man and the Boy by Robert Ruark. Just finished the first chapter the other night and very much looking forward to reading more. I too am not an avid reader, but am trying to become one.

I listened to this on audible, great story really enjoyed it.

 

[Trial153]

The Last of the Mohicans, J. F. Cooper.


I read this about 20 years ago while I was freshmen in college and just gotten around to rereading it.

 

[wa_archer]

Been working my way through Modern Huntsman. The volumes are like books, great sotry/articles really enjoy it and great photographic work as well.

 

[Slow Roper]

Journal of a Trapper: Nine Years in the Rocky Mountains 1834 - 1843 by Osborne Russel.

 

[Slow Roper]

Also, True Grit by Clinton Portis, and Campfire Tales by John Taffin. Both are great, but True Grit is fantastic. Highly recommended.

 

[AlaskaHunter]

Just got done with Indian Creek Chronicles by Pete Fromm, about a college student watching a bunch of salmon fry over the winter in the bitterroots. Pretty good book!

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I was given that book when I left Idaho in the 1990s....a good read!

 

[AlaskaHunter]

Five Skies by Ron Carlson is a fictional story that captures the essence of western landscapes and people.
Opening paragraph:
"It was a cold May in all of Idaho, and as the month began there were only a few short
stacks of lumber and construction gear on the plateau above the remote river gorge,
along with all the game trails and manifold signs of rabbits, who were native to the place
and who now moved cautiously around the three men sleeping on the ground.
The first time Arthur Key saw the plateau at the far edge of the ranch called Rio Difficulto,
he was lying in a sleeping bag in the frigid open air at dawn, or a little before it, in the
deep gray light through so many creatures jostled in the sage. He was a big man and had
slept in rough sections, shouldering the oversized sleeping bag up over his right arm
and then his left by turns."

 

[1_pointer]

"Savage Son" by Jack Carr

 

[jbseamus83]

I'm reading 2 different books right now.

- Wild Men, Wild Alaska
- A Hunter's Heart: Short Essays on Blood Sport

A Hunter's Heart will really make you think and contemplate. I just started the other, but it was highly recommended to me.

 

[Birddog916]

I've been ploughing through a lot of Jim Harrison's work of late and just finished "A good day to die". I was hilariously tragic and kept me on the edge of my seat.

 

[Wildabeest]

Great introspective memoir from one of my favorite actors.

 

[Bhoesl]

A Jack Reacher series installment by Lee Child on pre-order..."Blue Moon"..be out October 29

I’ll second this, I really enjoy all the jack reacher series.

 

[np307]

Currently a few chapters deep into Boone: A Biography by Robert Morgan.

Kind of breaks my heart to read about the wilderness that Boone enjoyed in the Yadkin Valley and all the game he killed there. I grew up in the same region in a neighborhood and just wish I could've seen it then. Couldve wandered those woods as a teenager.

 

[SlownSteady7]

Finishing “The Second World Wars” by Victor Davis Hansen. Very dry and analytical but more info on WWII than you could hope to learn in a lifetime.

Recently finished and recommend

“Helmet for my Pillow” by Robert Leckie
“With the Old Breed” E.B. Sledge

and if you’re into more fiction military/espionage books I highly recommend the Tier 1 series by Andrews and Wilson. All of them are edge of your seat action and I can’t wait for the next book.

 

[mannmicj]

I have been re-reading this one leading up to elk season this year. I read it years and years ago, but it's been a great refresher on things that slip the mind. View attachment 111263

I own this one. It's a great book.

 

[mannmicj]

 

[geetar]

Currently a few chapters deep into Boone: A Biography by Robert Morgan.

Kind of breaks my heart to read about the wilderness that Boone enjoyed in the Yadkin Valley and all the game he killed there. I grew up in the same region in a neighborhood and just wish I could've seen it then. Couldve wandered those woods as a teenager.

Drove through there last week. It’s a far cry from wilderness now. I too wish I could have seen it then.

 

[geetar]

My brother bought me this book back in August. Just finished reading it. It’s really detailed on how the near demise of the American buffalo, the establishment of Yellowstone National Park, and organizations like Boone and Crockett Club are all linked together in a specific period in time that set the stage for what we know as conservation today. It details the works of George Bird Grinnell, Theodore Roosevelt and others as they pushed to save the bison, combat poaching, and establish game laws. If you enjoy hunting and recreating on public lands as we know them today this book might be of interest to you to understand how conservation of these wild places came to be in America .