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Anyone have a clue where I can buy a copy of this out of print book.. Sounds awesome.. Thanks..

It’s an interesting read. Cal Pappas of Willow Ak put it together. I don’t think he has any copies left though. Pm me, I could loan you mine

Go to AbeBooks. They can run down anything.

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A friend routed me there, and I've been reading a ton of really old stuff on our early explorers and hunters since.

I picked a copy up years ago and loaned it to a buddy. Just scrounge the internet and one will show up. It is a good read and he was and adventurous guy, as was his wife and her brother. I like the part where they ordered a silk tent from Abercrombie and Fitch for summer camping. A silk tent for craps sake.

+1 on AbeBooks

I've had great luck with them.

They are not a bookstore as such -- they connect to THOUSANDS of booksellers around the world! Yep, thousands, and they are better at finding really obscure books than Amazon.

I have used their "Advanced Search" to find the correct details about a book I had only a vague description of. They didn't have it, but at that point there was a way to "set an alert" -- and get an email when one of their thousands of bookstores found a copy of the book.

You can specify a particular edition, what range of conditions you would accept, paperback or hardcover, etc.

If it is a bookstore in, say, Morocco, that finds your book and not in your own country, you will often have a chance to specify fast (& expensive) shipping or slow & cheaper shipping.

In one case, I think it took nearly a year for them to get a particular book I wanted (it was from a very small press run of a very specialized scientific book), but they WILL find a copy eventually!

John

Thanks everyone!!!!