Here are a few summer books for those who still read. For more information on these books or authors click on the enlarged red letters. They are your link to their web sites or Amazon.
Mystery
For those who enjoy a good action mystery, two great authors have stepped up to replace Hillerman and L'Amour.
Randy Wayne White
Randy Wayne White mysteries typically involve the tropics of Southwest Florida. Randy was a fishing guide on Sanibel when I worked in that area. I'm sorry to say I didn't know him. Wish I had. Maybe we will run into him when we visit his Doc Ford's Restaurant this fall. I knew some of the people he mentions in the early stories so that conversation ought to be a hoot .
This month's recommendations are:
"Night Vision" "Deep Shadow"
James Lee Burke
James Lee Burke whose two pronged series include Cajun mysteries of South Louisiana or modern day six shooter lawmen of the west. Either way Burke's stories are very good and some have been made into movies.
His West Texas borderland Sheriff gets into big trouble in: "Feast Day of Fools". It's a good old west type shoot 'em up set in the present.
History
For the history buff I have a couple of real treats.
Eric Jay Dolin
First if you are interested in the fur trade era and would like a book to set your perspective right. This is the one.
This book breaks my stereotype and explains the founding and settling of America from a fur trade economic view point. I found it to be an eye opener.
The book is "Fur, Fortune and Empire" by Eric Jay Dolin . If you are an American history nut you will love it.
T.R. Fehrenbach
We have a Sunday columnist here in the San Antonio newspaper. He writes a column on general conditions and politics of the nation. I call him our village elder. The man is wise. I've been reading Mr. Fehrenbach's columns for years but did know him to be a historian or an author. He is a fine representative of both professions.
As a part of my study of the fur trade era, naturally, I became interested in the Mountain men and the Indians of that time.
One of my shooting buddies suggested I get Mr. Fehrenbach's book on the Comanche Nation's history. Forget everything you learned in school and at the Saturday afternoon matinee. This is the real deal.
This book...."Comanches: The History of a People" is a must read for any student of American History. It tells it like it was....warts and all. All sides are gored. We are able to hear the whole story from an unbiased scholar's viewpoint. This is a serious book. Buy it !
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