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??Authors that have influenced your interests in Black Powder??
« on: December 01, 2011, 06:52:27 AM »
There have been many authors of books and writers that have had a big influence on my interests over the years. There are many very good writers in the muzzleloading community.
 
One of my favorite inspirational writers was Bob Spencer and his page, "Bob's Black Powder Notebook". His site has been around a long time, I re-discover it every few years or so and his articles are just grand.
 
There may be a few of you that are unfamiliar with Bob's work, so here is a link to his site:
 
http://home.insightbb.com/~bspen/
 
 
 
Do you have any writers whose works have had an influence on your interest and participation in Black Powder??
 
Is there a link to their works??
 
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Re: ??Authors that have influenced your interests in Black Powder??
« Reply #1 on: December 01, 2011, 10:09:04 AM »
Sam Fadala without a doubt is one. I enjoy reading and rereading his Blackpowder handbook. I also like his .22 book and game care and cookbook. I would like to find a copy of the .30/30 book he wrote too. I just like his writings all around I guess.
 
Also the man that writes for Muzzleloader Magazine I think his name is Mike Nesbiit? His articles on Northwest Trade Guns have really got me to wanting one bad.
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Re: ??Authors that have influenced your interests in Black Powder??
« Reply #2 on: December 01, 2011, 01:33:57 PM »
Years ago I joined an online chat group on Muzzleloading and Mike Nesbit was a member of the group.

He's a pretty good conversationalist and has a great sense of humor.  8)
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Re: ??Authors that have influenced your interests in Black Powder??
« Reply #3 on: December 01, 2011, 06:11:28 PM »
Sam Fadala!  8)
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Re: ??Authors that have influenced your interests in Black Powder??
« Reply #4 on: December 02, 2011, 07:09:00 AM »
Since I have been interested in Black Powder shooting longer than I have been interested in reading about it I don't think influence is the right word.  However my two favorite authors on the subject are Sam Fadala (for muzzleloaders), and Mike Venturino (BPCR).


Mike's website is:http://www.mlventerprises.com/


A google search for Sam Fadala reveals several links, but I did not see a web page for Sam.
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Re: ??Authors that have influenced your interests in Black Powder??
« Reply #5 on: December 03, 2011, 04:27:58 PM »
Quote from: Rock Home Isle on December 01, 2011, 01:33:57 PM
Years ago I joined an online chat group on Muzzleloading and Mike Nesbit was a member of the group.

He's a pretty good conversationalist and has a great sense of humor.  8)

That wouldn't have been the Muzzle Loaders Mailing List, would it?  After Bob Spencer left it slowly deteriorated.  There are several Yahoo groups with the old crew on them (Yahoo group ML-L), and TOF has the latest incarnation of MLML at http://oldfoxtraders.com/phpbb/index.php although very few of the old gang use it, unfortunately.  I think Nesbitt is on the Yahoo groups.  Spencer is on one of them also.  You'll see a lot of the old names there!

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Re: ??Authors that have influenced your interests in Black Powder??
« Reply #6 on: December 03, 2011, 05:14:04 PM »
I think it was the Muzzleloaders Mailing List...Yes that sounds very familiar. Nesbit was a hoot...I enjoyed his posts, they were insightful and informative. Not a lot of BS and gibberish with ole Nesbit. And he had a great sense of humor.
 
The Mod and I didn't get along, though, he kept taking punative actions against me and my posts...so in the end I left.
 
He was quite the Fun-Sucker.  :o
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“Ain't this somethin'? I told my pap and mam I was going to be a mountain man; acted like they was gut-shot. Mother Gue said to me; ‘Make your life go here, son. Here's where the people is. Them mountains is for Indians and wild men.’  "Mother Gue", I says "the Rocky Mountains is the marrow of the world," and by God, I was right. Keep your nose in the wind and your eye along the skyline.”
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Re: ??Authors that have influenced your interests in Black Powder??
« Reply #7 on: January 13, 2012, 02:48:19 AM »
Frank Twist.  He just had a very informative and helpful article about frizzen bounce, its effect on flint life, and how to diagnose and counteract it in "Muzzleloader". 


The fact that he is my father is strictly coincidental.  ;)
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Re: ??Authors that have influenced your interests in Black Powder??
« Reply #8 on: January 13, 2012, 04:51:16 AM »
I enjoy Bob Spencers site and Muzzleloader magazine too. Mike Nesbits writing in ML mag and posts on their Campfire forum have taught me a lot. The Books of Buckskinning series is packed with great info and how to tips which I go through often.

I read a lot of non-fiction journals of mountain men and history of the fur trade era that always puts me in the mood to shoot muzzleloaders. Right now I'm reading Life in the Rocky Mountains by Warren Angus Ferris. He was a trapper in the early 1800's who kept an extensive journal. One thing that adds interest to me is that he passed through the area I live in many times and mentioned landmarks that I see everyday.
   
Terry C Johnston is the one author who wrote fiction that best captures feel of the trappers journals with a great story. If you have not read his 9 book Carry the Wind series, do yourself a favor and pick them up. He thoroughly researched the fur trade history and mixes events and characters from that time with his fictional characters.  He started with the 3 books shown in the first link as the Carry the Wind series. Then he wrote 3 prequels shown in the link as the Titus Bass series, followed by 3 sequels to Carry the Wind (also in the Bass series).  I will be re-reading this series again soon. His books always make me want to get out and shoot my muzzleloaders.
 
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/j/terry-c-johnston/

Short biography on Johnston
http://www.msubillings.edu/library/Speccoll/johnston/shortbio.htm
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Re: ??Authors that have influenced your interests in Black Powder??
« Reply #9 on: January 13, 2012, 07:38:08 PM »
Ned Roberts, Turner Kirkland, and Elmer Keith were some of the ones who got me started back in the 70's. IMHO, Fadala was a hack and a plaguerist. Nowadays, Bob Spencer's site is a good start for beginners, and his smoothbore info is especially good.
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Re: ??Authors that have influenced your interests in Black Powder??
« Reply #10 on: January 15, 2012, 04:27:35 AM »
I started life in a smokeless world.
My dad was a shooter of the .38 and .45 revolvers and was pretty good with a 30-06.
We all used a few .22's he owned.

I was about 10 or so and found a copy of Francis Parkman's classic "The Oregon Trail" in a new branch library in the burbs where we lived.
I distinctly remember getting caught by my 6th grade teacher, Mrs. Schindler, reading the book in class.
It was about 3 inches thick.
The clear images evoked by that book got me to pestering dad for a smokepole.

I even built a toy out of emt and a 1 by 4 and made a lock (such as it was) out of heavy iron wire which held a piece of Pic (the mosquito repellent) for our neighborhood "re-enactments".
People would stop us and want to see my "gun".

Some short time after that, I found another book (which name I can't recall) about a young Confederate soldier who, at the end of the war, hid a Spencer carbine in his trousers and, stiff legged, walked away from the war.
He proceeded to head out to the West and have adventures galore.

Dad took my matchlock (Pic-lock?) to a local gun store where he was well known and this started a conversation which culminated in his buying a Lyman 1858 Remington which we shared until I got out of Uncle Sam's service.



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Re: ??Authors that have influenced your interests in Black Powder??
« Reply #11 on: January 16, 2012, 08:57:35 AM »
James Fenimore Cooper. The Leatherstocking series -- novels featuring the hero Natty Bumppo: The Pioneers (1823), The Last of the Mohicans (1826), The Prairie (1827), The Pathfinder (1840) and The Deerslayer (1841).

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Re: ??Authors that have influenced your interests in Black Powder??
« Reply #12 on: January 16, 2012, 09:21:43 AM »
None...I grew up with an interest in history and a love of early American history...
 
If anyone influenced me it was Fess Parker...
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Re: ??Authors that have influenced your interests in Black Powder??
« Reply #13 on: January 16, 2012, 02:20:59 PM »
I never thought about writers of fiction so I would have to add Vardis Fisher who wrote the novel "Mountain Man" and Terry Johnston who wrote the Titus Bass series of mountian man books. Good reads.
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Re: ??Authors that have influenced your interests in Black Powder??
« Reply #14 on: January 16, 2012, 02:49:46 PM »
well if we include fiction, any of the old black and white westerns that I was exposed to, along with one show that was about a scout during the 1700's "Hawkeye" I think. Then of course all the Daniel Boon and Davie Crockett shows
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