Mel Tappan

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]

• 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

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.

• Survivalist retreats
• The Eastern American Redoubt - Cumberland Gap Kentucky
• Police states-Nanny states violate the United States Constitution-Bill of Rights (especially Second Amendment and Fourth Amendment) and Citizen's Unalienable rights by not upholding their oath to support and defend the Constitution.

Related people

• Stewart Rhodes founder of Oath Keepers, Montana
• Kenneth Royce (Boston T. Party) of Free State Wyoming and author of Boston's Gun Bible
• James Wesley Rawles of The Survival Blog, New York Times best-selling author of How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It, American Redoubt Idaho
• Jack Spirko of The Survival Podcast, Texas
• M.D. Creekmore of TheSurvivalistBlog.net, Kentucky
• John Jacob Schmidt - Radio Free Redoubt, Idaho
• Alex Barron - Charles Carroll Society, Idaho
• Ragnar Benson - Prolific Preparedness author
• Joel Skousen - author Strategic Relocation - North American Guide to Safe Places and World Affairs Brief, Utah
• Alex Jones - InfoWars Nightly News and Prison Planet, Texas
• Chuck Baldwin - Liberty Fellowship, Montana
• Dave Duffy and Claire Wolfe of Backwoods Home Magazine, Oregon
• Paul Wheaton - Permies.com Permaculture, Montana
• Nutnfancy - Nutnfancy YouTube Firearms Channel, Utah
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• Free State Wyoming
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• Free State Project

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