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The Bookshelf
Every available Field & Stream edition, other magazines and books we recommend… all on the bookshelf.
- 942
- Issues on the shelf
- 1895
- The first edition
- 2
- Libraries, one shelf
Staff picks
The Hitters Editions
One issue each: the Field & Stream that was on the newsstand the month each of us came along.
Titles
On the shelf
Two shelves. A magazine held complete is read right here; one that isn't readable online links to its publisher's current issue. The books are the ones worth owning — still in copyright, so they aren't read here, and each one points to where a copy can be found.
Magazines
Field & Stream
1895–2008 · 942 issues
Field Ethos Journal
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North American Whitetail
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Books
Audubon's Birds of America
Arcturus Epic Classics
John James Audubon · Sirius · 2025
All 435 of Audubon's hand-coloured plates, first issued between 1827 and 1838, in a large-format collector's hardback.
Hardcover · On Amazon ↗
Best of Dick Idol's Whitetail World
Hunting the Four Periods of the Rut
Dick Idol · Safari Press · 1997
Idol covers buck activity from the time bucks shed their velvet in September until they drop their antlers in the winter.
Print · Find a copy ↗
The Cherokee Trail
Louis L'Amour · Bantam · 1982
Widowed on the way to Colorado, Mary Breydon takes over a rundown stage station on the Cherokee Trail and makes it hold, with help from the gunman Temple Boone.
Print & ebook · Official site ↗
Comanche Moon
Larry McMurtry · Simon & Schuster · 1997
Second in the Lonesome Dove story, between Dead Man's Walk and Lonesome Dove: Gus and Call in their Ranger years, fighting across the Texas frontier.
Print & ebook · On Amazon ↗
Dead Man's Walk
Larry McMurtry · Simon & Schuster · 1995
Where the Lonesome Dove story begins: Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call as young Texas Rangers, learning to survive the frontier.
Print · On Goodreads ↗
Fishes
A Guide to Familiar American Species
Herbert S. Zim & Hurst H. Shoemaker · Golden Nature Guide · 1955
The pocket Golden Guide to the common fresh- and saltwater fishes of North America: 278 species, every one painted in full colour.
Print · On Amazon ↗
Flint
Louis L'Amour · Bantam · 1960
A feared Eastern financier, dying, rides back to New Mexico to be alone, and ends up taking a rancher's side in a range war against a land swindler and his hired gun.
Print · On Goodreads ↗
Gamebirds
A Golden Guide
Herbert S. Zim & Alexander Sprunt · Western Publishing · 1961
The pocket Golden Guide to North American game birds, illustrated in colour throughout.
Print · Find a copy ↗
Hondo
Louis L'Amour · Fawcett Gold Medal · 1953
Hondo Lane, a gunman who knows the Apache ways, and Angie Lowe, raising her son alone on a remote Arizona ranch, as the warrior Vittoro's people prepare to rise.
Print · Find a copy ↗
The Last American Man
Elizabeth Gilbert · Riverhead Books · 2003
The true story of Eustace Conway, who left home at seventeen to live off the land in the Appalachian Mountains. A National Book Award finalist.
Print & ebook · On Amazon ↗
Lonesome Dove
Larry McMurtry · Simon & Schuster · 1985
Two retired Texas Rangers drive a cattle herd from the Rio Grande to Montana. Winner of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Print · On Goodreads ↗
The Modern Pointer
A. F. Hochwalt · Self-published, Dayton · 1917
Albert Frederick Hochwalt's book on the pointer, published by the author in 1917 and revised and enlarged in 1923.
Print · Find a copy ↗
Pidgin to da Max
Douglas Simonson, Pat Sasaki & Ken Sakata · Bess Press · 1981
An illustrated, laugh-out-loud dictionary of Hawaiian Pidgin English — da kine, li'dat, and plenny more.
Paperback & Kindle · On Amazon ↗
Prince of Poachers
Part 1
Charles Beaty · B&N Publish · 2021
Charlie Beaty's own account of his solo outlaw hunts across Texas — the King and Kenedy Ranches among them — and the game wardens and ranch security who spent years trying to catch him.
Kindle & paperback · On Amazon ↗
Reilly's Luck
Louis L'Amour · Bantam · 1970
Abandoned at four, Val Darrant is raised by Will Reilly — gambler, gentleman, self-taught scholar — across Western boomtowns and the cities of Europe, until the day Reilly's luck runs out.
Print · On Goodreads ↗
salt.
Nayyirah Waheed · Self-published · 2013
Short poems on identity, language, life in the diaspora, pain, healing, community and love.
Print · On Goodreads ↗
Streets of Laredo
Larry McMurtry · Simon & Schuster · 1993
The sequel to Lonesome Dove: Captain Woodrow Call, now a bounty hunter, rides after a young bandit with Pea Eye Parker, one of the last of the Hat Creek outfit.
Print · On Goodreads ↗
Tenth Legion
Bible of Wild Turkey Hunting
Colonel Tom Kelly · Tom Kelly, Inc. · 2012
First published in 1973 and still the book turkey hunters hand each other: strategy and woodsmanship, told with a storyteller's wit.
Kindle & hardcover · On Amazon ↗