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Offline Talondale

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Classic Reads
« on: June 23, 2006, 11:49:00 AM »
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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Offline yleecoyote23

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Re: Classic Reads
« Reply #1 on: June 23, 2006, 12:17:00 PM »
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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Offline Islandlongbow

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Re: Classic Reads
« Reply #2 on: June 23, 2006, 02:11:00 PM »
The Old Man and the Boy by Robert Ruark it's not  archery but it traditional  :thumbsup:    :campfire:  

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Offline SilentT

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Re: Classic Reads
« Reply #3 on: June 23, 2006, 02:15:00 PM »
The Old Man and the Boy is fantastic.
Peter Hathaway Capstick for Safari "stories".
Horn of the Hunter - Ruark
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Re: Classic Reads
« Reply #4 on: June 23, 2006, 03:12:00 PM »
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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Offline mike g

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Re: Classic Reads
« Reply #5 on: June 23, 2006, 03:36:00 PM »
Any or all of the books by Howard Hill are the books about Howard Hill....
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Offline John Nail

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Re: Classic Reads
« Reply #6 on: June 24, 2006, 07:32:00 AM »
"Jenny Willow" by
gaddis....have a hanky handy
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Offline Bible5

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Re: Classic Reads
« Reply #7 on: June 24, 2006, 07:42:00 AM »
"Hunting With The Bow and Arrow" by Saxton Pope
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Offline Falk

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Re: Classic Reads
« Reply #8 on: June 24, 2006, 05:06:00 PM »
... 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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Offline Bible5

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Re: Classic Reads
« Reply #9 on: June 24, 2006, 05:46:00 PM »
Oh yea, "Ishi in two WOrlds" a MUST read...a great
read !
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Offline Trad Lad

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Re: Classic Reads
« Reply #10 on: June 24, 2006, 05:49:00 PM »
All of Don Thomas books are great, and dont' over look the books by Jay Massey.
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Re: Classic Reads
« Reply #11 on: June 26, 2006, 02:22:00 PM »
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Offline Double Creek

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Re: Classic Reads
« Reply #12 on: June 26, 2006, 04:05:00 PM »
All of the above mentioned...

Also, The Green Hills of Africa - Hemingway
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Offline Lee Viv

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Re: Classic Reads
« Reply #13 on: June 26, 2006, 04:58:00 PM »
I'd recommend any book by David Petersen!
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Offline BaldingEagle

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Re: Classic Reads
« Reply #14 on: June 26, 2006, 05:37:00 PM »
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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Offline Talondale

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Re: Classic Reads
« Reply #15 on: October 09, 2007, 10:51:00 PM »
Need some reading material for the stand.  So....Bump.
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Offline Ian johnson

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Re: Classic Reads
« Reply #16 on: October 09, 2007, 10:57:00 PM »
horn of the hunter- by robert ruarke
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Offline Longbowz

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Re: Classic Reads
« Reply #17 on: October 09, 2007, 11:11:00 PM »
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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Offline Jake

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Re: Classic Reads
« Reply #18 on: October 10, 2007, 04:05:00 AM »
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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Offline UK Bowman

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Re: Classic Reads
« Reply #19 on: October 10, 2007, 05:53:00 AM »
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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