Good read

[PLS]

Love to read everything I can about history. I especially like first hand accounts. If you've found something good, please share a link.

This one hits close to home because I know a lot of the ancestors of the people interviewed. My gr gr grandfather Sturman was interviewed for two articles. Use the keyword search to make it easier.

The Turnbo Manuscripts

[neralich]

Interesting stuff, PLS... I don't have a link, but i love reading captivating books with alot of history and old pictures! My favorite books include civil war, oldtime logging, oldtime railroading, and oldtime mining.. It fascinates me to no end to see and read the way things were done in the early (and late) 1800's. It's amazing and i recommend the time-life series of hardback books from 1976, called The Old West.. good luck finding them but they're some of the best books i own..

[TurtleMan]

Two of my favorite fiction books of all time are Tabaco Road by Erskin Caldwell, about share cropers durring the depreshion, funny and sad. The other is Acitecture Of The Arkansas Ozarks, auther unknown, about the first setelers of that reagion and the stories that ensue, each chapter is loosly based arond a house or barn, it is a little si-fi twords the end but I couldn't put it down. Both are works of fiction but for the most part the accurately depict a slice of Americana.

[neralich]

For the both of you, I recommend the book by legendary folk-music artist Woody Guthrie called "bound for glory"....it's an autobiography... turtleman, i also recommend the movie "bound for glory" and "the grapes of wrath"... if you haven't already seen them; both take place during the depression and depict some classic americana.. I can't imagine going through the dust storms and all.. Both movies very fascinating

[TurtleMan]

Bound for glory, I swear I've heard of that one. I have seen the grapes of wrath, and tobaco road is quite simmiler. people are oppressed not only by class, but also by outdated thinking not alowing them to rise above there plight and better themselfs because "that is the way we always did it".

[PLS]

Look up Woody Guthrie and read about what his dad may have been involved in at the bridge. Glad those days are over.

Another thing to look at is Riverbluff Cave. The website needs a lot of improvement but still a neat thing. One of the people that was involved with the site was Dr. Ken Thomson. Dr Thomson and his wife were killed in a car wreck over spring break while I was in one of his classes.

[neralich]

Hey, PLS, i just realized theirs a permanent?? thread on books in the arrowhead hunting and collecting forum, by desertwalker, haven't had the time to go all the way through it yet, but seems pretty cool for arrowhead hunting and collecting books and related, etc...

[PLS]

I set this one up because when I searched for links under primitive tech and culture I got nothing. The last time I sat through an eight hour meeting where I couldn't take a book I realized a need for this. Wikipedia is ok but I know there has got to be better resources on the internet to read stories about prim tech and culture.

Maybe by the time I have to go to more continuing ed more people will post more links of good stuff to read on the internet and save me from eight hours of boredom.

[paleo_joe]

I've got a couple of Turnbo's books and have some ancestors in them, but I had never seen that link -- thanks!

[Buckeye]

Originally Posted by neralich

"the grapes of wrath"... if you haven't already seen them; both take place during the depression and depict some classic americana.. I can't imagine going through the dust storms and all..

Probably one of my favorite books of all time with one of the most intense endings....the movie was pretty good too.