Well said Ansel12. We forget sometimes how badly history gets corrupted sometimes by historians. That’s one reason I collect old books.
“That’s one reason I collect old books.”
My oldest book is from the 1700s, my oldest American History book is from 1834, oldest medical book is dated 1838, and my oldest “Universal Formulary” (apothecary recipes) is 1854, some get pretty obscure but nothing is better than reading books from an actual era.
I love old books and also look for modern reprints of classics like “Life Among the Apaches” 1868” “Diary of an Early American Boy” 1805 and “Our Wild Indians: Thirty-Three Years’ Personal Experience Among the Red Men of the Great West” 1883, and so on.
I also read some of the very obscure old books and small biographies from past centuries that are being put on the internet for free, for me that is a good source for books that are by trappers and women and others that were little known and aren’t famous today.