book recommendation: rifles, hunting, the wild west, etc...

[gaseousclay]

can anyone recommend a decent book or books on hunting, rifles, the wild west or anything to do with this sorta thing?

 

[doublebucklemonk]

Check out anything written by or about Teddy Roosevelt.

 

[lamontqsanford]

Lonesome Dove is an excellent read.

 

[Jim]

Hell, I Was There by Elmer Keith is a great read.
Anything by Jack O’Connor are classics.

 

[Crixus]

Anything by Jack O’Connor

Jim, you beat me to it. Every man with even a passing interest in firearms, shooting physics and hunting lore of a time that has passed will enjoy Jack O'Connor's pen. Careful, though, or you may end up buying a nice .270 and re-locating.

 

[Dustinl]

Though it doesn't pertain to the old west, I would recommend "Hemingway on Hunting". It is a collection of hunting editorials and parts of his books. Great read!



DL

 

[professorchaos]

Doesn't get much better than Peter Hathaway Capstick. Start with Death in the Long Grass or Death in the Dark Continent. Some of the most entertaining books I've read.

Also taking place in Africa is Robert Ruark's Horn of the Hunter: The Story of an African Safari.

Gene Hill is also enjoyable. I particularly liked Passing a Good Time: With Guns, Dogs, Fly Rods, and Other Joys and Mostly Tailfeathers: Stories About Guns and Dogs and Birds and Other Odds and Ends.

 

[_JP_]

Hell, I Was There by Elmer Keith is a great read.

That's the title that I was going to recommend, and I plan to read it again in the near future. It is a true story of a cowboy who became famous as a big game hunter. There is a lot of stuff about the west as it was at the turn of the century, and plenty of stuff about guns.

 

[gaseousclay]

thanks for the recommendations. i'm also looking for other good non-fiction books, whether it be about hunting rifles, biographies or what have you. I've been tempted to check out that FN book that details all the firearms by Winchester.

 

[Nishnabotna]

Maybe take a look at some Jeff Cooper?

 

[jd_1138]

Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire is a great read about his time as a park ranger in Utah at the Arches National Park. It's non-fiction. Not really about hunting, per se, but it's about the great outdoors and camping and wild life run-ins.

 

[airmech]

Elmer Keith, Peter Hathaway Capstick are both great writers and their books are excellent reads.

 

[bdev]

Here's a good book...

"Life On The Plains and Among The Diggings" by Alonzo Delano

LIFE ON THE PLAINS AND AMONG THE DIGGINGS

Being scenes and adventures of an overland journey to California:
with particular incidents of the route, mistakes and sufferings of the emigrants,
the Indian tribes, the present and the future of the great west.

This book was written 1857

If you click on this link, you can read the first nine chapters....


http://www.journeycalifornia.com/life-on-the-plains-and-among-the-diggings

 

[pianoman]

It's not really about the wild west or hunting... but it's from the First World War.

H.W. McBride - A Rifleman Went to War

Pretty in-depth discussion of rifling technique.

 

[azmark]

Doesn't get much better than Peter Hathaway Capstick. Start with Death in the Long Grass or Death in the Dark Continent. Some of the most entertaining books I've read.

Also taking place in Africa is Robert Ruark's Horn of the Hunter: The Story of an African Safari.

Gene Hill is also enjoyable. I particularly liked Passing a Good Time: With Guns, Dogs, Fly Rods, and Other Joys and Mostly Tailfeathers: Stories About Guns and Dogs and Birds and Other Odds and Ends.

Amazing recommendations!

I love Ruarks The Old Man's Boy and Peter Hathaway Capstick Death in the Dark Continent.

The Old Mans Boy made me sob

 

[gaseousclay]

i've been enjoying books by the North American Hunting Club recently. They've done a series of books called the Hunter's Information Series and it covers a wide range of topics from game rifles & elk hunting to whitetail deer hunting and waterfowl hunting. the curious thing is I've found all of these books at antique stores. I still want to check out Big Game Rifles by Bob Hagel

 

[Rev Rob]

I offer to you two books by Dan Aadland: The Best of All Seasons - Fifty years as a Montana Hunter and In Trace of TR - A Montana Hunters Journey. Both are good reads.

 

[professorchaos]

Amazing recommendations!

I love Ruarks The Old Man's Boy and Peter Hathaway Capstick Death in the Dark Continent.

The Old Mans Boy made me sob

I haven't read The Old Man's Boy. Going on the list!

 

[maxman]

I'll ask my brother. It might take a few days I don't see him all the time.
He's got quite a nice collection of books on guns.
All non-fiction and some that are out of print.

 

[Phog Allen]

Doesn't get much better than Peter Hathaway Capstick. Start with Death in the Long Grass or Death in the Dark Continent. Some of the most entertaining books I've read.

Also taking place in Africa is Robert Ruark's Horn of the Hunter: The Story of an African Safari.

Gene Hill is also enjoyable. I particularly liked Passing a Good Time: With Guns, Dogs, Fly Rods, and Other Joys and Mostly Tailfeathers: Stories About Guns and Dogs and Birds and Other Odds and Ends.

Henry, you beat me to it! Man, when I was a young teenager in the late 1970's there was no one I would have rather been than Peter Hathaway Capstick. Even the guy's name sounds like something from a story. I was first introduced to his writings in Guns & Ammo. I particularly liked The Killer Baboons of Vlackfontaine. Capstick introduced me to Ruark, Patterson, and Karamojo Bell.

Regards, Todd