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Revision as of 16:54, April 21, 2016
Mel Tappan (1933 - 1980), full name of Melrose H. Tappan III, was one of the founders of the Preparedness movement.[1] 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 survivalists to promote the idea of Vote with your feet strategic relocation to a "free states" from a liberal "death spiral" Nanny state-Police state (See Blue state - unfree states). Like James Wesley Rawles and Joel Skousen, Mr. Tappan advocated survivalist retreats in lightly populated rural regions in .[2][3]
Contents
Books
- Survival Guns Paperback: 480 pages, Paladin Press (November 1, 2009) ISBN 978-1581607192
- Tappan on Survival Paperback: 218 pages, Paladin Press (July 1, 2006) ISBN 978-1581605099
Continuing Influence on Modern Survivalism
Mr. Tappan's works see influence preppers 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
External links
- Mel Tappan search on Duck Duck Go Privacy search engine
References
- ↑ http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=950&dat=19810331&id=ixsMAAAAIBAJ&sjid=61kDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6691,4779572 Accessed December 27, 2014
- ↑ [http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/532445.html Mitchell, Dancing at Armageddon, excerpt Accessed December 27, 2014
- ↑ 160 word Fair Use quotation from 848 pages of firearms 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
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