An Unofficial 'The MeatEater Podcast' Reading List
Ep. 403: Rattling Bucks with Joe Rogan
January 09, 2023
Description
Books Referenced
Author: Tom Kelly
Context:
Steve discusses this book about turkeys and turkey hunting behavior, specifically mentioning how the author observed that a Tom wouldn't respond to calling even from real hens, illustrating that sometimes animals simply aren't interested rather than being spooked.
Author: S. C. Gwynne
Context:
Joe mentions he read this book and told Steve about it, describing it as part of a series of books about Native Americans that Steve recommended to him. The discussion occurs in the context of learning about the hard lives of Native Americans.
Author: Evan S. Connell
Context:
Steve recommended this book to Joe after Joe read Empire of the Summer Moon. Joe describes it as 'so heavy' and discusses how these books about Native Americans illustrate the difficult, hard scrabble life they faced.
Author: John Gneisenau Neihardt
Context:
Joe mentions this as 'another great one' in a list of books about Native Americans that help illustrate the hardships and horrors those people faced and how different life was not that long ago.
Author: Osborne Russell
Context:
Steve references this historical journal when discussing what it was like to live off the land historically, noting that 'a lot of times there was a lot to eat and a lot of times ain't shitty' - referring to the feast or famine nature of historical hunting and gathering.
Author: Helge Ingstad
Context:
Steve mentions this book about living off the land in Canada, using it to illustrate the point that 'sometimes you can't there's so much you can't even process at all in a lot of times screwed' - the unpredictable nature of subsistence living.