Great Places: Montana: A Recreational Guide to Montana's Public Lands and Historical Places for Birding, Hiking, Photography, Fishing, Huntin (Great Places) Review

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The high country of Montana, the "Big Sky" country, calls to the wilderness-oriented with a force that is irresistible. It is Montana that flows through dreams, dominates cheerful planning sessions, and determines budgets. With good reason: Montana's wild vastness; its mountains, lakes and rivers; its light and openness, its clean air and the lift you feel inside when you pass a truck or car on a lonely road and get a friendly wave; its amazing animal and bird life abundance.There is no place on the planet like Montana, except Alaska, and Montana is a lot easier to get around in than Alaska. Once you've locked into Montana's pull, you know you have to go.
The best way to go to Montana is with Chuck Robbins as your guide. He's already been where you want to go.
Chuck Robbins has floated the rivers and walked the trails. He has sat on the overlooks where you can watch herds of buffalo, just as the mountain men saw them. He has trained his binoculars and cameras on more birds and wild animals than most of us could ever see in a lifetime. He has stayed in the wrong campgrounds and eaten in the wrong restaurants. He has fished the over-rated, over-crowded rivers and hunted where game was sparse. BUT . . . he has also done all these things in the right places, Great Places: Montana is his third book on the Rocky Mountain outdoors and is your personal guide to Montana's finest.
With Chuck Robbins and Great Places: Montana as your guides, you're going to make every dollar and every minute of your precious time count as you explore the wonders of Montana for your own personal outdoor adventure--whether bird-watching, trail-walking, wilderness backpacking, photography, fishing, hunting, float-tripping, or sight-seeing. Wildlife preserves, historical sites, detailed maps, internet resources, guides and outfitters--they're all in this book. You can trust Chuck Robbins to show you where and how to enjoy the outdoor life in Montana.


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Call Me Francis Tucket (The Francis Tucket Books) Review

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(More customer reviews)This was a very entertaining book with lots of action and adventure. It starts out where it leaves off at the first book, "Mr. Tucket". Francis Tucket is with the wagon train Mr. Grimes left him with. Then he decides to go out hunting on the prairie. After finding a large herd of buffalo, his Indian pony goes into the herd. He makes a big mistake by shooting his rifle while in the middle of the buffalo. The buffalo go into a wild stampede with Mr. Tucket in it. The stampede finally ends in the middle of the Great Plains. He sleeps the night and wakes up with two men pointing his rifle at him. They take all his food, ammunition, and even the shirt off his back. So he is stranded in the middle of nowhere with nothing but a skinny donkey. I liked this book a lot except the abrupt ending. Otherwise, the book is a great sequel and has lots of interesting situations. I would recommend reading the first book before reading this one. There are also three sequels in the Tucket books. This is an excellent book if you like the Oregon Trail or the frontier, or if you like Gary Paulsen books.

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Firearms, Traps, and Tools of the Mountain Men: A Guide to the Equipment of the Trappers and Fur Traders Who Opened the Old West Review

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Carl P. Russell (1894-1967) did not live to see this book go to print in November, 1967, having died the June before it was released. My review is from a first edition hard cover copy purchased in April, 1968.
Dr. Russell actually started this book in 1930-34 as he organized a display as an employee of Yellowstone National Park. His book is one of the most complete even to this date I've ever seen covering a period from the Lewis and Clark Expedition up to the year 1840.
As he mentions this book pertains to the iron work of these men who lived bigger than life lives away from civilization, preferring to live in wild areas among the game trails, streams, and Indians. These men in fact out of practicality became themselves much as Indians. Living and thinking like Indians many times living with Indians, marrying into the tribe to become almost unrecognizable from their host tribe.
In bringing the pages of this book together, Dr. Russell "researched the journals, diaries, and letters of the trappers themselves, as well as the business records, inventories and invoices of such famous fur-trading outfits as (General William) Ashley and (Major Alexander) Henry, (Jedediah) Smith, (William) Sublette, and John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company ..." Dr. Russell having either photographed or sketched these 'surviving artifacts' once used by these intrepid explorers now shares them and their history from the early 1800's through 1840 with the reader.
No better guide is in print concerning the iron artifacts from this 20 years plus era. The contents of my hardcover book are listed below:
The Mountain Man in American History
Firearms of the Beaver Hunters
Beaver Traps and Trapping
Knives of the Frontiersmen
The Ax on America's Frontiers
Miscellaneous Iron Tools that went into the West
Irons in the Fire
Historic Objects as Sources of History (Appendix A)
John Jacob Astor's Inventory of Tools and Blacksmithing Equipment
on the Columbia River, 1812-1813 (Appendix B)
Markings on Axes and Tomahawks (Appendix C)
Representative Fur Returns, American Fur Company, Indiana, 1839-1841 (Appendix D)
Bibliography
Index
In over 450 pages this author has given the reader a view into the history of these hardy, adventurous men of history. While having numerous works on the Mountain Man, this book has always been one of my prized books on this era. It would seem to be almost a basic necessity for any Mountain Men library.
"I took ye for an injun"
Semper Fi.

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An illustrated history of the weapons, tools, and techniques of the legendary American frontiersmen.
This classic, scholarly history of the fur trappers and traders of the early nineteenth century focuses on the devices that enabled the opening of the untracked American west. Sprinkled with interesting facts and old western lore, this guide to traps and tools is also a lively history. The era of the mountain man is distinct in American history, and Russell's exhaustive coverage on the guns, traps, knives, axes, and other iron tools of this era, along with meticulous appendices, is astonishing. The result of thirty-five years of painstaking research, this is the definitive guide to the tools of the mountain men. 400 black-and-white illustrations

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