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"Undaunted Courage" by Stephen Ambrose

"Northwest Passage" by Kenneth Roberts

Others have been read but these 2 have been read 5+ times each.

The Frontiersmen.
Allan Eckert

Have to agree here though The Sun Also Rises is close.

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry. 4-5 times

Herman Melville’s Moby Dick.

To date, the greatest single piece of American Literature in The Western Canon.

In the top ten of mine.

It's hard to nail down a "best," but one of the most memorable was Vonnegut's Sirens of Titan. I think it's the greatest literary practical jokes ever devised.

One that stayed with me and made me think

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Something of value- Robert Ruark

"Tailspin"
by John Armbruster
New book this year. True story of a 18 year old Wisconsin man Gene Moran, who was a tailgunner in a B-17, survived a several mile fall to earth in the severed tail of the plane, and his survival as a POW. Also details the efforts of the author who is a school teacher and amateur writer, to get Moran to reluctantly tell his story.


"Undaunted Courage"
by Ambrose
which vividly describes the Lewis and Clark expedition is probably my favorite. Paints a vivid picture of the American West wilderness.

"Neptunes Inferno"
by Hornfischer
details the naval battles around Guadalcanal.

The Bible

Mig Pilot
Ol' Mose

Shogun by James Clavell

KJV?
Or New International Version?

“I have spoken of the rich years when the rainfall was plentiful. But there were dry years too, and they put a terror on the valley. The water came in a thirty-year cycle. There would be five or six wet and wonderful years when there might be nineteen to twenty-five inches of rain, and the land would shout with grass. Then would come six or seven pretty good years of twelve to sixteen inches of rain. And then the dry years would come, and sometimes there would be only seven or eight inches of rain. The land dried up and the grasses headed out miserably a few inches high and great bare scabby places appeared in the valley. The live oaks got a crusty look and the sage-brush was gray. The land cracked and the springs dried up and the cattle listlessly nibbled dry twigs. Then the farmers and the ranchers would be filled with disgust for the Salinas Valley. The cows would grow thin and sometimes starve to death. People would have to haul water in barrels to their farms just for drinking. Some families would sell out for nearly nothing and move away. And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

Shoot I don't know. The Book of Camping and Woodcraft By Kephart is somewhere in there and a couple by Teddy Roosevelt are too.

The education of Little Tree - Forest Carter

God’s Word

[quote=Otter]"Undaunted Courage" by Stephen Ambrose

Nothing Like it in the World
Building of the Transcontinental Railroad
Is another good on by Ambrose

Atlas Shrugged
or perhaps
The Gulag Archipelago