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Which reminds me, a couple of good brown bear books are ALASKA'S BEAR HUNTING JUDGE, about Judge George Folta by Richard C. Folta. The judge killed a pile of brown bears with a Remington Model 8 autoloader in .35 Remington but eventually switched a Garand. A very interesting book, both about bear hunting and justice in Alaska.

Then there's PINNELL AND TALLISON: Last of the Great Brown Bear Men, by Marvin H. Clark Jr., about two of the early guides on Kodiak Island. Bill Pinell and Morris Talifson are the guys who ran the famous "three bears" advertisement in various outdoor magazines during the 1960's. It showed the hides of three huge brown bears spread out against the side of one of their camp buildings.

+1 on Alaska's Bear Hunting Judge. I found a used copy a few years ago and it's a great read.

Those are some good looking titles about the North Country esp the Mad Trapper. I will look them up.
I think it goes without saying but if the North Woods is on the menu then the Robert W Service collection of poetry is a good one and the collected short stories of Jack London are loaded with cold stuff.

George Hoffman's, A Country Boy in Africa.

Not at hunting book, but a great read:

"Half Broke Horses" by Jenette Walls

"Outside Chance" by Thomas McGuane. Essays on stuff he's been involved in. Hunting, fishing cutting horses, roping, hunting dogs, boats, motocross, etc. If I had to pick one it would be, "The Heart Of The Game", about antelope and deer hunting on his ranch in Montana.

Game and the gunner;: Observations on game management and sport hunting by Pierre (Albert) Pulling
The education of a turkey hunter (ISBN: 0876911327 / 0-87691-132-7) Hanenkrat, William Frank - tale of a vanished time in the South.

I have no idea who or what was behind the Winchester Press label but they published some remarkably fine books 40 years ago. Some folks even prefer their edited edition of Keith an Autobiography to Hell I Was There.

Dad had that one on the shelf and would read it every winter or two... Been a couple decades for me.

A great thread. Just ordered up copies of:
Three Against the Wilderness
Alaska's Wolf Man
Hunting North America 1885-1911
The Year Long Day

A book about up north I really enjoyed is Kabloona 1941 by Gontran de Poncins; roughly 15 months at the top of the world with the Inuit in 1938. Not hunting specific but plenty raw enough to keep me eager to get back to it.

Edmund Ware Smith's books -- "The One-Eyed Poacher of the Maine Woods" and the spinoffs -- are out of print now but are really funny tall tales about a down east age long past. Wish I could fnd them for my grandson at a reasoanble price to lure him away from his damn game box.

While waxing old fartish, as a youngter, Sigrid Unsted's "Runes of the North" also lit a never quenched love for the north woods in me.

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this is an outstanding thread. keep em' coming.

I just started re-reading my worn copy of Mostly Tailfeathers by Gene Hill. It's a collection of his columns from Sports Afield back in the 1970's, Good stuff and it brings back memories since I was a big fan of his when I was a kid and still am.

I also have his A Hunter's Fireside Book and it's up next. I need to find more of his books if they are still in print.

A classic: "The Old Man and the Boy": Robert Ruark

Some others:

"Where Spaniels Spring": Ken Roebuck

"Son of the Morning Star": Evan Connell

"Custer and Crazy Horse: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors: Stephen Amprose

"The World Rushed In": J.S. Holliday

Game Trails.