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Great Surveys of the American West Richard A Bartlett
Source of the River Jack Nisbet
Tracking David Thompson across western North America

Did I miss it ?? Anything by Robert Heinlein. I was a science fiction nut as a youth. Isaac Asimov and Robert were pretty good writers. And, Who goes there ? A short science fiction story. sorry, I don't remember the author. It was done as a movie about 20 years ago with Kurt Russel. It was a pretty good remake.

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The Bible is full of true stories of great men of God, rough mountain men that travelled through desert land and were full of courage and the power of God .

Another example was Elisha.
Teenagers and, yea, even some of the God hating reprobates would do well to take heed of 2 Kings 2.
He was a preacher starting an important journey to do the Lord's will. Next thing you know, the kids, likely those of the false prophets, followed him and mocked the man of God. This is what happened...

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"And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.
And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them."

Now THAT would be something boys should read.

Did it have Lee Van Cleef in it too?
Did it remind you of an antia/blm event that Russel showed up at?

These are written at a middle school level, but I liked them. They will get checked out in a high school if boys still read in this generation.

https://www.christianbook.com/bible-wars-weapons-rick-osborne/9780310703235/pd/03239

This series is very interesting and has a male audience in mind. I enjoyed this one called Bible Wars and Weapons the most.
They are very reasonably priced and most should finish and return them in two weeks.

Robert E. Howard wrote a lot of pulp fiction and was considered the father of the Conan heroes.
He wrote some that might be out of print based on a hero named Solomon Kane. He was a Puritan who wasn't exactly a pure pascifist. He had adventures that would make Harold Potty go potty in his magical pants. The character hated witchcraft and injustices.
He was a good guy, but purely entertainment oriented.
Someone might steal it from the library, so get two copies of each volume if you go that route.

I don't want to send jeff beezos any business, but here's a sample.

https://www.amazon.com/Savage-Tales...mp;psc=1&refRID=Z1AY06DE70C1A2S4ZGR9

Politics aside, "Battlefield Earth" by L. Ron Hubbard is a long, long, epic story with plenty of action.

I enjoyed Piers Anthony's early stuff.

Martin L Shoemaker is a contemporary sci-fi writer. "Today I am Carey" and "The Last Dance" are simply outstanding.

"Old Man's War" by John Scalzi is very good.

"All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr won the Pulitzer...and deservedly so. Set in occupied Europe in WWII. Good read for either gender.

"Dune" by Frank Herbert is a classic for a reason.

So many good reads...so little time.

Undaunted Courage
Crazy Horse and Custer
Both by Steven Ambrose

William Clarke bio (not sure of author)

Endurance about the Shackleton expedition as mentioned earlier

When Hell was in Session by Jeremiah Denton

A Man on the Moon: One Giant Leap by Andrew Chakin

Any book about John Colter

Jim Bridger: The Grand Old Man of the Rockies

The Earth is Enough by Harry Middleton and The Education of Little Tree by Forrest Carter.

Heinrich Harrer

The White Spider

Seven Years in Tibet

He was a tough dude!

Osa Johnson's "I married adventure." A slow starter, but should appeal to both males and females. A young Kansas lady on safaris to Indonesia, New Guinea, and Africa.

I would add Havalla Babcock and Robert W. Service to the list

The Rivers Ran East by Leonard Clark!

We Pointed Them North
Recollections Of a Cowpuncher

By E.C. “Teddy Blue” Abbott and Helen Huntington Smith

Empire of the Summer Moon : Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
by S.C. Gwynne

The operator’s manual to a 16” chainsaw or 20” pushmower would be a good start.

Minutes of the Lower Forty by Corey Ford

Well, since we’re going historical... a Rocky Mt fur trade era book....

Westering Man: The Life of Joseph Walker

Sand county Almanac

The one outdoors book I remember reading in high school was The Frontiersmen by Allan Eckert and it made a pretty big impression on me.