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Welcome Tom, this has been one of the most popular and informing threads I've seen on the internet.

Tom,

Welcome to the forum, hope you can stick around. I'll look forward to your input.

Once I got my Samworths together I sort of lost track of what they sell for.

I never meet Elmer but did talk with him a couple times on the phone. That was back when I was collecting Sharps rifle cartridges and that's what we talked about.

Great to see you here Tom.

I have two of Tom's books and I would urge anyone who doesn't have any books that Tom has written to check them out. They are well put together.

I was fortunate to have talked with Elmer Keith in person and do have some of his books. Unfortunately I lost a couple he had autographed for me in a fire of a friend, who did replace the titles for me but Elmer had passed on so they don't bear his signature like my originals do.

Waterman, probably Carol Barnes, Gunnerman Books. Google her to get a list of neat stuff. She is one of Dave's advertisers. There is a list of Bill Wise's books remaining posted on her link on this site.

Waterman,

I think more likely you are referring to Ellen Herring of Trophy Room Books in California. I've been attending SCI conventions since about 1979 and I think she's been to about all of them that I have attended. She specializes in rare and hard-to-find outdoor books. Her website is trophyroombooks.com.

Steve, Mike, Idared, many thanks for the welcome. Glad I found the site.

TT

Thee was a lengthy article on this author, his books, his longtime girlfriend, etc in THE NEW YORKER a couple months or so ago.

Supposedly the girlfriend wrote most of his stuff.

There's a big battle going on: his father and brother against the girlfriend for $$$$$ Larson left behind.

I never read any of his stuff and the article still interested me.

Mr Steele and Mr waterman: Have neither of you ever read TRUSTEE FROM THE TOOL ROOM by Nevil Shute? It's a wonderful read!

One of my all-time favorites, along with In The Wet and Round the Bend, 2 more of his best IMO.

Just finished re-reading Cowan's Sergeant York and His People, another favorite albeit written in a completely different and now-outmoded style. My Mother's family is also from Middle Tennessee and, like York's ancestors, were living there long before statehood. Her hometown is somewhat South of York's hometown but has much the same sort of folks and re-reading the book brought back memories of many enjoyable vacations spent there.
Regards, Joe

I'll have to seek out those two and find time to read them. After bird season when the chill is really settling in.

Nice to have that Sgt York connection. I'll bet you can feel the same spirit in the air that he must have, or at least when you visited there when you were younger, before America became homogenized.

Also great that your roots there go back so far. That's something I truly envy.

Speaking of books I was looking for one today and spotted
"Gunsmith's Boy' by Herbert Best 1942. Story of a young boy who apprenticed to a gunmaker circa 1816 in upstate New York. Goes into good detail about building a rifle.