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Thanks, I forgot to add that to pic I have last years.
 

Here's a few of mine. Forest Forensics is a very interesting book about being able to read the forest. The Mass book is kinda cool for a northeast hunter but really nothing to do with treasure hunting. Just cool pics of old stuff. The Whitmans book is amazing and The Alberts and Tice books are great. Urban treasure hunter has some very interesting stuff in it as far as areas to hunt and seizing opportunities as the open up. I've been told that American Artifacts of Personal Adornment is good. I love love love having a library of reference books. So much cooler than googling everything. There's a book called Collectore Illustrated Encyclopedia of the American Revolution that's been recommended to me as well. Cool thread. I'm curious to see what's recommended
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Good info Pep. You can never go wrong with the local history books. I actually found a local Rev War soldiers journal and it's fascinating to read. These guys would hike 20 miles a day doing patrols along the rivers here. Hard to comprehend these days. I wish he had dropped a few USA buttons 8-)
 

I have the illustrated revolutionary war book it's in the pic it's a great book just got it last week. I do have a couple local memoir books from when I lived in wv. I actually found a nice site from reading it.
 

collector01 said:
I have the illustrated revolutionary war book it's in the pic it's a great book just got it last week. I do have a couple local memoir books from when I lived in wv. I actually found a nice site from reading it.
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I found my tree coin site from an old used book my mom gave to me. I had heard of this settlement but nobody knew where it was and I had never seen a book tell where it was. This dirty little used book gave a rough description of something I thought I was familiar with and sure enough. You just never know.
 

Ahab , I was going through some old pamphlets and books that my parents had amassed about the South West
and I came across an excellent description of a long defunct "swimming hole" . I hope to explore it in the early fall this year .
This is one advantage that old books seem to have over the internet - (with google maps etc., it's the best of both worlds)
 

STRIKE IT RICH WITH POCKET CHANGE by Potter & Allen. Using this guide in inclement weather to treasure hunt my penny jar, and doing better at finding error coins with more dollar value for the time invested than just about any other activity outside of work that I have ever pursued. They are definitely out there waiting to be discovered! Cheers!!
 

Argentium said:
I came across an excellent description of a long defunct "swimming hole" .
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I was reading through this thread and ran across your comment about the swimming hole, so I thought I'd toss in this:

SwimmingHoles.info Swimming Holes and Hot Springs rivers creek springs falls hiking camping outdoors skinny dipping

Other reference sites I've saved are:

Historical Newspapers - Newspapers.com
Historic Bottle Website - Homepage
Shotgun
WWW Tide/Current Predictor - Site Selection
Railroad Maps Collection
Antique Maps of America - Leen Helmink
Basic Hallmarks Identification
 

Argentium said:
Ahab , I was going through some old pamphlets and books that my parents had amassed about the South West
and I came across an excellent description of a long defunct "swimming hole" . I hope to explore it in the early fall this year .
This is one advantage that old books seem to have over the internet - (with google maps etc., it's the best of both worlds)
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Those are the little jewels that often have been missed by others. I'm a huge fan of the books. As good as Google is there's a lot that's missing
 

I found a book with good info on deep web searches and map resources called How to research for treasure hunting and metal detecting by Otto Von Helsing. I learned some good tips from it, and I bought it as an e-book.
 

So far, most of my acquisitions for here at home are all local history books and local historical maps. All I can get my hands on.
Maryland's Colonial History, The Colonial Newsletter, a Cavalier's Adventure, the story of Henry Norwood, the Entailed Hat, The Parson of the Islands, and anything with the writings of Capt. John Smith, who explored most of the Chesapeake Bay area.
 

Ahab8 said:
Here's a few of mine. Forest Forensics is a very interesting book about being able to read the forest. The Mass book is kinda cool for a northeast hunter but really nothing to do with treasure hunting. Just cool pics of old stuff. The Whitmans book is amazing and The Alberts and Tice books are great. Urban treasure hunter has some very interesting stuff in it as far as areas to hunt and seizing opportunities as the open up. I've been told that American Artifacts of Personal Adornment is good. I love love love having a library of reference books. So much cooler than googling everything. There's a book called Collectore Illustrated Encyclopedia of the American Revolution that's been recommended to me as well. Cool thread. I'm curious to see what's recommended
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Nice arsenal of research books Ahab, I bet they help.
 

I just bought H. Glenn Carson's three books on coin hunting (Coinshooting I, II & III) and they made for great winter reading. Short but insightful.
 

Just got early coins of america by crosby. Looks like a great book. Thanks for all the replies looks like I have a lot to look into.
 

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