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Originally posted by BaxterB:
Killers of the Flower Moon is also good. About the murders of my people the Osages because of oil money. Will be a movie this October.

The Osage had so much royalty money that the first Rolls Royce dealership west of the Mississippi was in Pawhuska Ok.

The book was certainly interesting.

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Originally posted by AilsaWheels:

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Originally posted by BaxterB:
Killers of the Flower Moon is also good. About the murders of my people the Osages because of oil money. Will be a movie this October.

The Osage had so much royalty money that the first Rolls Royce dealership west of the Mississippi was in Pawhuska Ok.

The book was certainly interesting.

My grandmother was born in Pawhuska in 1916 and lived there during the murders. She remembers people driving their fancy cars up to huge houses with tipis in the back... we've an interesting tribe.

"Unrepentant Sinner" by Col. Charles Askins is a very entertaining read. Get well soon.

Randy (Norman Conquest ) got me started on WEB Grifin fiction book. Lots of hunting but not animals.
Action packed though.

amazing how many books you guys have mentioned that I've read the past few years.

Get well soon and don't over do the PT and wreck
it worse.

George

McMurtry's books about the Texas Rangers-he wrote four, and IIRC in chronological order was Comanche Moon, Dead Man's Walk, Lonesome Dove, and Streets of Laredo. The TV shows based on the books are good, but the books are much better IMHO.

if you like biography's check out the book "A Woman of No Importance"

Is that about Kamala or Pelosi???

Do yourself a huge favor and read the entire "Courtney" series by Wilbur Smith. The order of the books and some information regarding the subject matter can be found here: https://www.hookedtobooks.com/...mith-books-in-order/

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Originally posted by BaxterB:

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Originally posted by AilsaWheels:

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Originally posted by BaxterB:
Killers of the Flower Moon is also good. About the murders of my people the Osages because of oil money. Will be a movie this October.

The Osage had so much royalty money that the first Rolls Royce dealership west of the Mississippi was in Pawhuska Ok.

The book was certainly interesting.

My grandmother was born in Pawhuska in 1916 and lived there during the murders. She remembers people driving their fancy cars up to huge houses with tipis in the back... we've an interesting tribe.

+1

Looking forward to the movie.

I have been re reading my African Outfitter & African Hunting Gazette magazines. I went back to 2019 and been having a good time rereading them.

Still in recovery mode from a knee replacement a few month ago.

I have a few books from Flack to go over and then I will be looking at the shot placement book.

Thanks all!
I have picked up 7 books from this list and will report back on them.
Much thanks!

The Pillars of the Earth

By Ken Follett

Damn Good on audible also

I completely empathize with you Ross. Six years ago I tore my left meniscus. I was fortunate in that my niece Dr Caitlin Meadows is an Orthopedic Surgeon who did her residency at Northwestern Hospital in Chicago. She introduced me to her mentor, Dr Jim Hill, who has been the head Orthopaedic MD for two Olympic teams. After surgery I was fortunate to live 3 blocks from a fine Rehab Center, staffed by young females with PHD’s in Physical Therapy. I followed Jim’s schedule religiously and was hunting Eland in Namibia later the same year.

In terms of good reading material, I recommend the following:
White Hunters by Brian Herne,,Buffalo by Craig Boddington, Morning Shadows Evening Sun by Brad Fitzpatrick and Tall Tales by Buzz Charlton.

I’m late to this thread, so perhaps you’ve got plenty to keep you occupied, but one book I found fascinating was Day of Trinity. It is about the Manhattan project, where we developed the first atomic bomb. It’s a very interesting story that digs deep into the project and people involved.

I also highly recommend books published by the National Sporting Fraternity. Jim Rickhoff put out some great books back in his heyday after leaving Winchester Press. The East African Hunters, edited by Tony Dyer, is an interesting read about many of the legendary PH’s operating in Kenya and Tanganyika back in the 1940s-1970’s.

Doc Ford series of novels by Randy Wayne White.

DOGCAT-
I had the misfortune of a complete disconnect of my patellar tendon with a simple fall as we were sailing out of Mangalore, India! I was misdiagnosed with a "diabetic excursion" when I had serious nerve compression at L3... affecting all motions from waist to knee!!...causing stumbles, among other issues, not mentionable!! I went down after a stumble with my left leg completely folded up under me, full weight... POP!! NO WALK!!
Went to the Maritime Hosp in Cochin, they X-rayed it while I held the plates!! Wanted to do surgery... NOT A CHANCE said my RN/ARNP wife!! Regent put us off in Cochin vs sailing to Singapore...it was a horrendous challenge flying home... Cochin- Dubai- SFO-Customs, terminal change- SEA 6 pieces of luggage, customs, traumatic!!..traumatic!!... Fortunately no pain...
Immediately after New Years, I was in surgery... a week or so easy duty, then PT...I don't think you will need all these books... I didn't have time for 2!!
They did twist me with leg lifts in PT that just about incapacitated me!! That drove proper MRIs and found the nerve compression that caused the stumbles...and alot of other functions below the waist!!
Back to surgery again...problem resolved...a little more PT, all is well!!
All the Best to YOU!!

CheerZ,

Being a bit of an under achieving over-achiever, I read all of Jim Corbett's books over the past week.
Wow! Unbelievable! The was the "Selous of India", he was amazing. When I started one, I could not stop... I finished them all and now am onto some others.

If you have not read any of Corbett's books, you are missing out....

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The Pillars of the Earth

By Ken Follett

Damn Good on audible also

Just picked this one up.

Just finished "Wild new World" by Dan Flores.

It is an absolute amazing account of modern people coming to North America and the hunting tools and techniques employed by the first Americans.

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Is that about Kamala or Pelosi???

That would be funning but no it actually about a women who ran the most successful undercover intelligence operation for the allies in WWII in France.