"The Butcher's Boy" by Thomas Perry

Can't believe no one has mentioned Lonesome Dove.

The prequel, Comanche Moon, was good as well - but you can't beat the original LD.

I had seen the movie several times before reading the book and I thought it was still phenomenal. There's plenty they left out in the movie despite it being 3 parts.

The "first book" of the series, Dead Man's Walk - boy that was a tough one to get through though. You can tell Larry was in a darker place mentally when he wrote that one.

Yes, my first thought when I saw this thread.

"Empire of the Summer Moon"

An outstanding suggestion.

Add another vote for "Empire of the Summer Moon"

He wasn’t trying to come off as fraudulent imo, at least by his own accord. But his being an authority on African hunting is way overstated. Lush goes hunting with dingbat wife and capable P.H would be an apt description of “Use Enough Gun”

I much prefer Capsticks writing but I am aware his authenticity comes into question. In Africa the PH’s call him “Crapstick”…

Been reading a lot of Indian books lately.

About to start “ The Comfort Crisis” tonite.

Mike Blakely from Marble Falls writes a good western, "Plenty Man", "Comanche Moon" and "Shortgrass Song" are good reads. I picked up a book the other day called "The Mason County Hoo Doo Wars" about the fued in the late 1800's. I found a copy of Elmer Keiths book of "Hell I was there" at a yardsale for $2. J. Frank Dobie has some good reads I enjoyed. I loved a good Tom Clancy book too. The writers that have continued the series have done justice to his character.

For a memoir of an unbelievable life, hunt up "Scouting on Two Continents" by Frederick Russell Burnham. He battled Apaches and took part in the Pleasant Valley War in Arizona, campaigned in both Matabele wars in Africa, made the trek to the Klondike and then went back to Africa for the Second Boer War, where he was made a major in the British Army by King Edward VII and served as chief of scouts. While patrolling and gathering intelligence in Africa with his friend, Robert Baden-Powell, he taught Powell the woodcraft skills he learned growing up among the Sioux on a reservation in Minnesota, where his father was a Presbyterian missionary, an experience that helped give birth to the Boy Scouts. Another good friend, H. Rider Haggard, modeled his hero Allan Quatermain of "King Solomon's Mines" on Burnham and another friend, Frederick Courteney Selous. Burnham was a friend as well of Theodore Roosevelt and Gifford Pinchot.
Why this man is not a household word as an American hero is simply beyond me. You will never forget him.

https://www.amazon.com/Scouting-Two-Continents-F-R-Burnham/dp/1797037617/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1WOM2MCBXVYWZ&keywords=Scouting+on+Two+Continents&qid=1702048065&sprefix=scouting+on+two+continents%2Caps%2C106&sr=8-1

" Hell, I Was There" has to be one of the best book titles of all time. I wish I had bought one years ago. $2 is almost free! The cheapest I ever saw was $16 used. That was years ago and I didn't buy it then.