I think I've posted a couple of these before, but that's OK. They belong together again today.
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Bernard DeVoto, Westward The Course of Empire: The Story of the
Exploration of North America from Its Discovery to 1805,
Eyre & Spottiswoode (London), 1954 |
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Bernard DeVoto, The Year of Decision: 1846
Little, Brown, and Company (Boston), 1943 |
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Bernard DeVoto, Across the Wide Missouri
Bonanza Books (New York), 1970s printing |
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| Francis Parkman, The Oregon Trail, Grosset & Dunlap, 1927 |
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| Ian Frazier, Great Plains, FSG, 1989 2nd printing |
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Lewis Mumford, The Myth of the Machine: Technics and
Human Development, Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich (New York), 1967 |
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Bernal Diaz del Castillo, The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico,
Farrar, Straus, and Cudahy, 1956 |
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Mike Hanley with Ellis Lucia, Owyhee Trails,
Caxton Press (Caldwell, ID), 1973 |
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Robert Maynard Hutchins, Some Observations on American Education,
Cambridge UP (London), 1956 |
5 comments:
Scott, I really don't want to go back to moderating comments again. It's a real PITA. Behave, please, and spare me the bother.
Look at the 2008 tape, if you're looking for red doom candles in the markets again, then the May-July window is promising.
Until then, there is nothing at all bearish here, and the vols and vol ETFs are making new lows.
The good news is, I found a nice copy of DeVoto's edited journals of Lewis and Clark at Magus Books in Seattle yesterday. That and the Ron Coase econ book.
Oh well, gave it a shot.
Hey CG, have you ever read Osbourne Russell's Journal of a Trapper?
No, but it looks terrific, and is almost free in paperback.
I loved DeVoto's historical narrative of the French loose in the American wilds.
I'll look that up, thanks!
I usually skip over these book posts, but I noticed you had Across the Wide Missouri in this one. My wife and I stayed in a cabin in the Rocky Mountains several years ago, for a few weeks. I read this book while we were there. It was great to imagine this guy riding around the area in the 1800's hunting and trapping. It does get a little hit and miss at times, being the nature of a journal. There are a lot of great gems though, about running into all different types of Native Americans, most good, some not so good. Some of my favorite entries involve hunting/killing bears, then roasting the meat over a fire. We will never know the intense pleasure these guys had, eating this meat after going so long without real food. What was likely a pretty awful meal, tasted better to them at that time than anything we will ever taste.
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