Good Reads

Tom Brown's best book

The story of an adventurous young boy who is guided by Stalking Wolf, an Apache elder, who knows the old ways. Through the course of many adventures, Tom learns how to live in nature with just what nature provides, and is spiritually transformed in the process. Fantastically entertaining reading that will profoundly change the way you look at rocks, sticks and the world around you. Whether or not you believe Tom's stories to be truely autobiographical, they will entertain, inspire and change you. This book has single-handedly inspired thousands of people to not only believe that they can live in, or strongly be a part of, our natural world, but to actually go out and do it!

The story of Geronimo

After having two wives and their children brutally raped and murdered by the white man, their land taken away, and their people forced onto reservations, Geronimo found his spiritual calling: to lead the remnants of wild Apache, to wreak vengeance on the white people and to live free ... or die. If you can't stand violence, don't read this book, but if you can tolerate violence in context and you can relate to wanting to live wild and free, this is a great story. A small band of hunter/gatherers use incredibly creative (part of Geronimo's 'medicine') tactics to elude and beat on an army of thousands. They free their friends, hide out in remote oasis canyons in the Sierra Madre, sleep under bushes, and live off the land. Makes you want to head back into the wild.

A Cherokee childhood?!

The story of a boy orphaned at 5, who grows up in the Tennessee mtns. with his Cherokee grandparents. A great tale about simple country life lived by Cherokee and southern appalachian folks of the 1930's. This book is a huge bestseller, loved by many people, but a source of controversy. It is presented as autobiographical, while there is alot of evidence to the contrary. Many folks also find a fair amount of underlying racism in Forrest Carter's work.