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'''Mel Tappan''' (1933 - 1980), full name of Melrose H. Tappan III, was one of the founders of the [[Preparedness]] movement.<ref>http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=950&dat=19810331&id=ixsMAAAAIBAJ&sjid=61kDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6691,4779572 Accessed December 27, 2014</ref> He was the editor of the newsletter ''Personal Survival ("P.S.") Letter''. He was also author of the [[Survival]] books ''[[Survival Guns]]'' and ''[[Tappan on Survival]]''.  

'''Mel Tappan''' (1933 - 1980), full name of '''Melrose H. Tappan III''', was one of the founders of the preparedness movement.<ref>http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=950&dat=19810331&id=ixsMAAAAIBAJ&sjid=61kDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6691,4779572 Accessed December 27, 2014</ref> He was the editor of the newsletter ''Personal Survival ("P.S.") Letter''. He was also author of the [[Survival]] books ''[[Survival Guns]]'' and ''[[Tappan on Survival]]''.  

A graduate of [[Stanford University]], Mr. Tappan was one of the earliest [[survivalist]]s to promote the idea of [[Vote with your feet]] [[strategic relocation]] to a "[[Essay:Free_States_Movement|free state]]s" from a [[liberal]] "death spiral" [[Nanny state]]-[[Police state]] (See [[Blue state]] - [[Essay:Free_States_Movement#Naughty_State_List|unfree state]]s). Like [[James Wesley Rawles]] and [[Joel Skousen]], Mr. Tappan advocated [[survivalist retreat]]s in [[population density|lightly populated]] [[rural]] regions in .<ref>[http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/532445.html Mitchell, Dancing at Armageddon, excerpt Accessed December 27, 2014</ref><ref>160 word [[James Wesley Rawles#Quotes_from_Other_Online_Sources|Fair Use]] [[quotation]] from 848 pages of [[firearm]]s and [[Second Amendment]] details: [[Boston T. Party]] ([[Kenneth Royce]]), ''[[Boston's Gun Bible]]'', [[Wyoming]], [[American Redoubt]] [[Javelin Press]], 2002, 2009: p. 10/1. ISBN-13: 978-1888766066, http://javelinpress.com/bostons_gun_bible.html, https://www.amazon.com/Bostons-Gun-Bible-Boston-Party/dp/1888766069</ref>

A graduate of [[Stanford University]], Mr. Tappan was one of the earliest [[survivalist]]s to promote the idea of [[strategic relocation]] to a underpopulated state from a [[liberal]] state. Mr. Tappan advocated [[survivalist retreat]]s in [[population density|lightly populated]] [[rural]] regions in .<ref>[http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/532445.html Mitchell, Dancing at Armageddon, excerpt Accessed December 27, 2014</ref><ref>160 word [[James Wesley Rawles#Quotes_from_Other_Online_Sources|Fair Use]] [[quotation]] from 848 pages of [[firearm]]s and [[Second Amendment]] details: [[Boston T. Party]] ([[Kenneth Royce]]), ''[[Boston's Gun Bible]]'', [[Wyoming]], Javelin Press, 2002, 2009: p. 10/1. ISBN-13: 978-1888766066, http://javelinpress.com/bostons_gun_bible.html, https://www.amazon.com/Bostons-Gun-Bible-Boston-Party/dp/1888766069</ref>

==Books==

==Books==

==Continuing Influence on Modern Survivalism==

==Continuing Influence on Modern Survivalism==

Mr. Tappan's works see influence [[prepper]]s more than three decades after his untimely passing.  In 2009 ''Tappan on Survival'' was re-published as a new edition with a foreword written by [[Bruce D. Clayton]]. As of December 2014 it ranks in Amazon's top 90,000 books (out of more than 5 million titles.) The seminal work ''[[Survival Guns]]'' is also back into print. Mr. Tappan's books are published by [[Paladin Press]].

Mr. Tappan's works see influence survivalists more than three decades after his untimely passing.  In 2009 ''Tappan on Survival'' was re-published as a new edition with a foreword written by [[Bruce D. Clayton]]. As of December 2014 it ranks in Amazon's top 90,000 books (out of more than 5 million titles.) The seminal work ''[[Survival Guns]]'' is also back into print. Mr. Tappan's books are published by [[Paladin Press]].

== See also ==

== See also ==

* [[Free State Wyoming]]

* [[Free State Wyoming]]

* [[Free State Project]]

* [[Free State Project]]

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