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I am looking for suggestions on winter reading material that is ag related. I have had good luck finding stuff on amazon if I know what I am looking for. So dust off your book shelf and post some of your favorite titles and authors.

I am re-reading the range by sherm ewing right now.
 
I just finished a good read. "Dakota Cowboy,My Life in the Old Days" by Ike Blasingame. It is educational as well as entertaining. True story of one who rode the rough string before the days of barbed wire. His great grandson is a neighbor of ours.
 
Shortgrass said:
I just finished a good read. "Dakota Cowboy,My Life in the Old Days" by Ike Blasingame. It is educational as well as entertaining. True story of one who rode the rough string before the days of barbed wire. His great grandson is a neighbor of ours.
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That is one of my favourites Shortgrass.

Any book by Elmer Kelton.

We Pointed Them North by Teddy "Blue" Abbot

Cattle Ranch by Nina Wooliams, a story of Douglas Lake Ranch from the late 1800's to 1979.

Rainbow Chasers by Ervin Austin MacDonald

Heart of the Hunter by Edison Marshall (was hard to find as it was written
back in the 30's or 40's)

I have all the Louis Lamour's.

I read a lot more before I found R. Net. :D
 
One of the best, funny, real-life reads about farming/livestock I ever had was the set by James Herriot who was a real life vet in the village of Darrowby, Yorkshire, Great Britain.

The titles in the set include If Only They Could Talk, It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet, Vet's Might Fly(his time in the Air Force), plus a few more that I can't remember.

James Herriot tells the most fascinating stories about his experience as a vet in the hills and hollows of Great Britain around the time of W.W.II. His descriptions of people, places and animals is without comparison, IMHO!

Look it up, you won't be disappointed.
 
I will agree, burnt, Herriot is wonderful reading. Amazing the similarities of 1930s North Yorkshire , England to here. Tremendous writer.
 
'Tricky woo's Gone Flop Butt! He could really tell a story Dr. Herriot. I hit the used book store every trip to the city-Centennial and Texas by James Michener are good long books-I don't like books under 300 pages. Go to the Stockman Gras Farmer website some thought provoking stuff there. A cowboy and his liofe by Fay Ward is the best how to book on the old cowboy ways. Good men and Salty Cusses and Both Feet in the Stirrups are good too.
 
Oh boy Northern now you've gone and made me dig my set out to read again this winter!!

One line from his books that I have used occasionally is ""git offa my foot, you sh***in' old bovrill" or at least that's how I remember it and how it comes out when necessary! :lol2: :lol2: :lol2:

I don't know if you like the other favorite of mine, but I used to read the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy almost every winter between Christmas and New Year's! Goes without saying that I didn't get anything else done that week. Barely got the chores done!!
 
Well then Northern Rancher if you like thick tomes then you might find Herman Wouk ("Winds of War" or "The Glory", etc.) to your liking. The only problem I have with books that big is that I'm afraid that I might K.O. myself some night when I fall asleep reading and that big ole book comes crashing down on my head . . . . :roll:

But all the risks of "heavy reading" aside :wink: , I have always enjoyed that kind of story about the Israeli/ Arab conflict.
 
Frontier Farewell by Garret Wilson
400 plus pages. great read about the settling of western Canada the interest of the US in western Canada the boundary commission , the NWMP trek west ect.
 
I've read them lol-I like all James Michener books-I bought Charles Goodnight's biography at the little indian trading post at the Custer Battlefield it's a great read-quite the old cowboy that man was. of course you can't beat Lonesome dove books-they are in order Comanche Moon-Dead Man's Walk, Lonesome Dove and Streets of Laredo. The first lines of Dead Man's Walk are 'Matilda Jane Roberts was naked as the air. Known throughout south Texas as the Great Western. She came walking up from the muddy Rio Grande holding a big snapping turtle by the tail. Matilda was almost as large as the skinny little Mexican mustang Gus McCrae and woodrow Call were trying to saddle break' The visual of that grabbed my attention lol.
 
burnt said:
One line from his books that I have used occasionally is ""git offa my foot, you sh***in' old bovrill" or at least that's how I remember it and how it comes out when necessary! :lol2: :lol2: :lol2:
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Have used that myself. :D

Also have diagnosed the odd calf with "gastric rot" and "stagnation o' t'lungs.

Have had the odd "twiltin' gurt 'oss" too. :wink:

The TV series was also priceless.
 
gcreekrch said:
burnt said:
One line from his books that I have used occasionally is ""git offa my foot, you sh***in' old bovrill" or at least that's how I remember it and how it comes out when necessary! :lol2: :lol2: :lol2:
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Have used that myself. :D

Also have diagnosed the odd calf with "gastric rot" and "stagnation o' t'lungs.

Have had the odd "twiltin' gurt 'oss" too. :wink:

The TV series was also priceless.
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Ya but have you ever had a dog bark explosively in your ear, nearly causing an "involuntary evacuation of the bowels . . ."?
 
burnt said:
gcreekrch said:
burnt said:
One line from his books that I have used occasionally is ""git offa my foot, you sh***in' old bovrill" or at least that's how I remember it and how it comes out when necessary! :lol2: :lol2: :lol2:
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Have used that myself. :D

Also have diagnosed the odd calf with "gastric rot" and "stagnation o' t'lungs.

Have had the odd "twiltin' gurt 'oss" too. :wink:

The TV series was also priceless.
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Ya but have you ever had a dog bark explosively in your ear, nearly causing an "involuntary evacuation of the bowels . . ."?
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The cougar came close. :wink:
 
Faster horses said:
Are you looking for fact or fiction?

A book I think everyone should read is
'The time it never rained'-by Elmer Kelton.

It's fiction, but very close to fact. So close, it's amazing.
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I HATED that book.....could be I read it while in Dalhart Tx which is where it takes place uuugggggg. I hate wind and sand and it never does e You might like it not being here and reading it durning the winter.
Most of the books I read are historical fiction or historical fact. If you want a good westward expedition one...
Dream West by David Nevin
It is about Charles Fremont and his mapping of the west across the rockies. Good story and lots of facts.
 
I read a good book a few years ago called "Old Jules. It's about a fella from switzerland who was in many ways responsible for the homesteading of most of western Nebraska.

It's an excellant read.
 
I go to the library and pick up any book written by a homesteader. I especially like the chapters about winter blizzards. Gives a guy a little appreciation for what our ancestors went through to settle this unforgiving country. Bob Moreland, Soapweeds father wrote about the '49 blizzard. Don't know why, but stories of misery during storms just really interest me.
 
3 way cross mentioned Old Jules. It was the first book by Marie Sandoz I read. Everyone who had ancesters in this area should read it. Part of it may be fiction, but mostly true. some more of her books you should read are The Beaver men, The Bufalo Hunters, and especially The Cattlemen. Her Book Crazy Horse tell a lot about some of the Indian wars or fights. I didn't like it the first time I read it I thought she presumed to much about the Indian. I got more out of it the second time, but think there had been a lot of editing from the first book I read. To much of an attempt at being political correct. I liked Cheyenne Autumn better.
 
Blkbuckaroo said:
Richard Hobson books,takes place near Gcreeck.Be prepared to be addicted to these books.
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They made a TV series about Richard Hobson's ranching days. Very humorous.
 

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