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Spotted Bull

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Hard To Find Books
« on: October 26, 2019, 12:04:10 AM »
OK guys. I like a good challenge and I work 12 hour overnight shifts, and need stuff to keep me busy sometimes. So if you are looking for a book and can't find one, put it on here and we can all have a good time searching for them on the world wide web!
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Re: Hard To Find Books
« Reply #1 on: October 26, 2019, 03:23:36 AM »
Im going to start with the main item I have been searching for since I heard of this mythical creature.

I REALLY want a copy of "Sketches of Hunting Pouches Powder Horns and Accoutrements of Southern Appalachia" with the colorized pictures, and maybe even the leather covers. I know they are as scarce as chicken teeth, so I still don't have one...
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Re: Hard To Find Books
« Reply #2 on: October 30, 2019, 11:39:24 PM »
 :hairy
Good deal!  I will take you up on the offer the next time I'm looking for a book.  Thank you!

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Re: Hard To Find Books
« Reply #3 on: October 31, 2019, 06:58:12 PM »
Quote from: Spotted Bull on October 26, 2019, 03:23:36 AM
Im going to start with the main item I have been searching for since I heard of this mythical creature.

I REALLY want a copy of "Sketches of Hunting Pouches Powder Horns and Accoutrements of Southern Appalachia" with the colorized pictures, and maybe even the leather covers. I know they are as scarce as chicken teeth, so I still don't have one...


I promise to be looking.

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Re: Hard To Find Books
« Reply #4 on: December 14, 2020, 08:17:18 AM »
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Re: Hard To Find Books
« Reply #5 on: December 14, 2020, 12:12:12 PM »
And there is the rub.  Notice that in the verbiage included, there is a line that says "Availability"?  And right after that is the number zero?
Well OK, then.  They don't got none.  ;banghead; ;banghead; So, still looking, I imagine. :Doh! :Doh!

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Re: Hard To Find Books
« Reply #6 on: December 14, 2020, 01:50:25 PM »
Good point on the close read...

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Re: Hard To Find Books
« Reply #7 on: December 14, 2020, 01:57:04 PM »
 :Doh!
Sorry about that!
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Re: Hard To Find Books
« Reply #8 on: December 14, 2020, 02:06:33 PM »
Jim Webb
333 Webb Dr.
Hillsville, VA 24343

"Jim does not own a computer and since he has trouble hearing he only does business by mail order"

Copied from another forum.

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Re: Hard To Find Books
« Reply #9 on: December 14, 2020, 05:07:46 PM »
Quote from: Butler Ford 40 on December 14, 2020, 02:06:33 PM
Jim Webb
333 Webb Dr.
Hillsville, VA 24343

"Jim does not own a computer and since he has trouble hearing he only does business by mail order"

Copied from another forum.

Just trying to make up for my last OOPS

All is good, no foul no harm!
As far as myself, I find it exciting to see that the Southern Appalachia Folks are "finally," getting the credit for many things that moved this Country West. Things such as the Southern po-boy Rifles, Southern Appalachia Shooting bags, Southern Appalachia Powder Horns, and on and on.
St Louis may have been the jumping off point for all things headed to the Rocky Mountains,  but before they got to St Louis, many of them got their "start" back in the Appalachian Mountains and the Ohio River Valleys.
The Firefox series of books pointed a lot of this out, but for many writers the story of the Hawken Rifle, Leather fringe, and Indians stole the printed word, consequently the when and where of all the early beginning of all things "Fur Trade" got burried under the muddy waters of the Great Missouri and the Mississippi Rivers.
Personally, I have no problem with this as I have enjoyed the reading for well over six decades,  I just find it refreshing to see a few things with Appalachian roots.

Russ....
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Re: Hard To Find Books
« Reply #10 on: December 14, 2020, 05:22:15 PM »
Foxfire 5 is almost a must-have book for all trad muzzleloaders.

Available used for as little as $6 and new for around $16.

I've read thru mine a dozen times or more and still find things I'd missed.

 :hairy :hairy
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Re: Hard To Find Books
« Reply #11 on: December 14, 2020, 06:44:37 PM »
Quote from: RobD on December 14, 2020, 05:22:15 PM
Foxfire 5 is almost a must-have book for all trad muzzleloaders.

Available used for as little as $6 and new for around $16.

I've read thru mine a dozen times or more and still find things I'd missed.

 :hairy :hairy

I totally agree on Foxfire 5, a "must have" for all us Traditional minded folks.
Fortunate for me Foxfire 5 has somehow escaped my two older Grandsons,  now 31 and 33 years of age....those two boys have "carried" more "stuff" outta my shop!
It has gotten to the point that when they go out to the shop they have to keep both their hands in their pockets.
And, they cannot tell me where one single item that they absconded with is today. They loaned or traded off a lot of stuff without even asking me about it!
 
 Sorry for the rant, but it's a fact.

Russ....
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Re: Hard To Find Books
« Reply #12 on: December 14, 2020, 07:39:09 PM »
For those wishing to view the Foxfire 5 chapter on "Gunmaking", here is a link to it's 11.5meg 229 page PDF file ...

Foxfire 5 - Gunmaking
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