I am just now starting to read,
"The Lost Trappers", written in the 1840s by an ancestor of mine who followed Davy Crockett and Sam Houston to Texas, then lived among the mountain men as Presbyterian missionary. He knew Hugh Glass, Jim Bridger and others.
I have just been given "
Across the Olympic Mountains: The Press Expedition, 1889-90"
in an original 1967 edition
by Robert L. Wood
It is about the first men to cross the Olympics, sponsored by the newspaper in Seattle, which later published serialized accounts.
The author, like the friend who gave me the book, had decades of hiking and climbing the same trails, thus an appreciation of how tough these old-timers were, as they live off the land while surviving blizzards, floods and grizzly bears.
If you like history, the best I have read lately is,
"1776", by David McCollough, about the campaign of Howe vs Washington after the battle of Bunker Hill and into the stalemate of the winter of 1776. Thoroughly researched, inside the minds of not only Howe, Clinton, Cornwallis and Washington, but junior officers, from their official correspondence and their letters to wives and close friends. It is a great lesson in human psychology and character, as brilliant ideas are ignored by seniors, decisiveness, boldness, timidity, hesitation and simple mistakes by one person at any level can lead to huge turns of events.
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