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What books do you recomend on muzzleloaders?

I have:

"BUCKSKINS AND BLACK POWDER" by: Kin Grissom published in 1983.

"THE MUZZLE-LOADING CAP LOCK RIFLE" by: Ned H. Roberts published in 1940, republished in 1991.

FOXFIRE series

There are so many more great books out there, what ones do you like?
 
This is not really a book, it's more of a periodical. "The Beaver" Special Issue Autumn 1983/reprint Subtital The Hudson's Bay Company and The Fur Trade: 1670-1870
I got mine from the Museum of the Fur Trade, Chadron Neb. I have a link to them on our groups web page http://home.att.net/~wordet the links are on page 3. There is a noval called "The Grand Portage" by Walter O'meara out of print I think. This is a good read very factual although it is somewhat of a love story. Even the women like it.
The Museum has one of the best Trade Gun collections you will ever see. Hope to get to their Rendezvous this next year.
 
For Books on the guns and detail about them, Shumways "Rifles of Colonial America" 1&2 and Whiskers "school" books are good, "The Kentucky Rifle& Pistol 1750-1850" by Johnson is another good one with lots of photos, I think T.M. Hamilton's Colonial Frontier Guns" is about the best I havce seen on early French and English smoothbores.
 
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