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Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: Talondale on June 23, 2006, 11:49:00 AM
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Reading another post recommending a book (Coyote Soul, Raven Heart) it got me to thinking what books out there are considered Classics on the topic of hunting? I never got into the hunting genre of reading outside of magazines but I am a prolific reader in many other standard genres. So list here what you think are classics. I'm sure there are good books by Bear, Hill, Muir, and such. I'm looking for prose and story telling not technical advice.
What I have read is:
The Yearling by Marjorie Rawlings - very good all about a deer and a boy
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls - another tear jerker, about hunting dogs and a boy.
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George - good childhood fantasy of running away from home and living off the land
Mountain Man by Vardis Fisher - has some hunting, inspiration for Jeremiah Johnson movie
The True Adventures of Grizzly Adams: A Biography by Robert McClung - The real Grizzly Adams was a hunter. Some good old time hunting stories.
The Tracker by Tom Brown - Still haven't decided how much of this book is fictional but entertaining read
The Bear by William Faulkner - Starts out as a good man (and boy) vs bear story but then degrades into a rambling foot drag of a read.
I've also read some of Theodore Roosevelts hunting diaries which seemed interesting but haven't found a compilation of them yet.
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Bows on the Little Delta - Glenn St.Charles
Hunting the Hard Way - Howard Hill
Both will take you back in time....to a place I think most of us wish we were.... :thumbsup: :campfire: :archer:
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The Old Man and the Boy by Robert Ruark it's not archery but it traditional :thumbsup: :campfire:
Jerry
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The Old Man and the Boy is fantastic.
Peter Hathaway Capstick for Safari "stories".
Horn of the Hunter - Ruark
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Two Little Savages, Ernest Thopson Seaton.
Hunting the Osage Bow, Dean Torges
Robin Hood, Howard Pyle
Theres and interesting bibliography in the back of Coyote Sould, Raven Heart.
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Any or all of the books by Howard Hill are the books about Howard Hill....
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"Jenny Willow" by
gaddis....have a hanky handy
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"Hunting With The Bow and Arrow" by Saxton Pope
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... of course the above, but I would like to add some others:
BEAR, F.B. (1976): Fred Bear's Field Notes. – 288 p., figs.; Garden City, NY (Doubleday).
KROLL, C.M. (1988): Fred Bear. – 360 p., 243 figs.; Gainesville, FL (Fred Bear Sports Club).
SCHUYLER, K.C. (1970): Archery, From Golds to Big Game. – 569 p., >250 figs.; New York (Castle Books).
THOMAS, E.D. (1993): Longbows in the far North. – 131 p.; Mechanicsburg, PA (Stackpole Books).
THOMPSON, J.M. (1879): The Witchery of Archery. – 269 p., 10 figs.; Facsimile 1984, Walla Walla, Washington (Martin Archery).
SWINEHHART, R.N. (1970): Sagittarius. – 239 p., figs.; Covina (Gallant).
WHITE, S.E. (1926): Lions in the Path. – 292 p., 35 figs.; Garden City, New York (Doubleday, Page & Co.).
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Oh yea, "Ishi in two WOrlds" a MUST read...a great
read !
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All of Don Thomas books are great, and dont' over look the books by Jay Massey.
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ttt
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All of the above mentioned...
Also, The Green Hills of Africa - Hemingway
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I'd recommend any book by David Petersen!
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FROM THE DEN OF THE OLD BOWHUNTER Chester Stevenson
I've read it two or three times.
Bows on the Little Delta
The Traditional WayBy: Fred Anderson
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Need some reading material for the stand. So....Bump.
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horn of the hunter- by robert ruarke
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Fred Bears field notes
The Old Bowhunter - Chester Stevenson
African hunting....
Horn of the hunter - Robert Ruark
Any of Jim Corbett's books on hunting India. If you want a book that will keep you at the edge of your seat, his story's are unbelievable, but they are quite true. If people today had the knowledge and compassion for the animals he studied and hunted. The world would be a better place.
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Crow Killer. The real story of the Mountain man Johnson
Descent Into Madness great read about a man gone crazy in the Canadian bush.
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A Hunters Heart By Dave Peterson
1000 Campfires by Jay Massey
Hunting with a Bow and Arrow Saxton Pope
All 3 are great reads Chuck, See you at Rough Mtn?
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Thanks for the posts on this thread - I ordered 2 of the books described here, that I have not read.
Gerry
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I like:
Hunting Trips of a Ranch Man by Theodore Roosevelt
and
The Wilderness Hunter by the same author.
Teddy tells some good stories!
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I know some have mentioned the books by Gary Paulsen - Hatchet, Brian's Hunt, etc. Haven't read them but I'd like to read them to see if I should add them to my kid's reading library.
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All of the above and Jake "Decent into Madness" is a great read! It felt as though you were watching this guy go nuts right in front of you.
I would also recommend The Winning America Series by Allen Eckert
It includes the Frontiersman, Conquerers, Wilderness War I can't think of the others right now, but there are 6 books in the series.
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The Still Hunter by Theodore S. Van Dyke
(a favorite of Teddy Roosevelt)
Not specifically bowhunting but a how-to classic about hunting deer.
I love this statement about deer hunting in general:
"Few things are so fatal to ultimate success as an early germination of the idea that you are a "pretty smart chap on deer". It is almost as ruinous as the idea that you are a poet. The teachers you need are disappointment and humiliation."
I've had my share of those teachers.
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I just finished The Old Man and the Boy by Robert Ruark. Even though it's not about bowhunting I would HIGHLY recommend this book. It personifies traditional values as it relates to hunting and growing up in general. I'm now about half way through The Old Man's Boy grows Older.
As mentioned, Coyote Soul, Raven Heart by Reg Darling is another fine read. Also, Bows on the Little Delta by Glenn St. Charles.
All these books have been mentioned and for a GOOD reason.
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I like all of the above. Among the better bowhunting stories I've read, "Ishi and Elvis", by Jim Hamm is a great one.
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Here's a link you might find interesting.
archery library (http://www.archerylibrary.com/)
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"Archer in Africa" by Bill Negley
"Ishi and Elvis" by Jim Hamm
"The Adventurous Bowmen" by Saxton Pope
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Another Grizzly Adams book:
The Legend of Grizzly Adams by Richard Dillon