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Books Authored by Stanley Potts

In his book "The Potts' Factor Versus Murphy's Law", Stanley Potts outlines many adventures, and a few misadventures, of a lifetime truly lived to the fullest extent possible in remote country, whether in his native Idaho, Nevada where he spent part of his adult life, or Alaska and the Yukon where he pursued big game and other activities.  For many years, Stan Potts outfitted and guided in some of the wildest country in America, the fabled Frank Church Wilderness of north-central Idaho, and while he contantly battled the nagging intrigues of the infamous Murphy's Law in play with an even greater tendency (which he calls the Potts' Factor) for things to go wrong, if there was any possible way they could.  Stan Potts has this to say about "The Potts' Factor Versus Murphy's Law":

"This book came about because of a bad accident that nearly claimed my life on October 6, 1999.  (See Chapter 25 - The Longest Night.)  During my several months recuperating, I had the time to do what my family, friends and clients in the hunting business had urged me to do - write a book."

There are incidents in the book from a hodgepodge of life's happenings.  (See lists of life's different vocations and avocations in the book's Introduction.)  Over the years, people sitting around the campfire or table and listening to some of the stories contained herein often said "You should write a book."  Well here it is, and we will see if I should have 'wrote a book'!

 

 

 

 

 

In Look Down on the Stars, his second book, Stanley Potts delves into more rich detail of the incredible life he's lived in the remote land of the America West -Idaho and Nevada in particular- and shares many stories, including a few hair raising ones, of his many escapades growing up in and spending a lifetime in the back country.  He became one of the country's most famous bighorn sheep guides and shares some stories out  of those experiences in Look Down On The Stars.  However, he also brings the reader along with him with humorous and heart warming stories about how this great land shaped him as a youth, as a young man, and then an adult, who in turn, helped shape ways for people to get into this wild land and enjoy it as much as he does.  In addition, his dedication chapter pays tribute to an incredible lady, his mother, Sarah Gray Potts, with a series of stories that, if they had stood alone, would have made this book a winner.  Stan and his wife, Joy, make their home in Shoup, Idaho.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Potts Factor's Return is the newest book of the series that Stanley Potts has written and had published.  In this newest book (2006), as with the previous two there is a hodge-podge of 72 years of memories of ranching and running an outfitting business in Nevada and Idaho, hunting trips from the northern Yukon , Alaska, British Columbia, Idaho and Nevada.  It is also interspersed with mining and Idaho wilderness history, airplane and flying stories, horse and airplane wrecks, life flights and ambulance rides, and tributes to some of his animals, along with his recent induction into "The Idaho Legends of Rodeo/Cowboy Hall of Fame".  Many of the stories have a touch of humor and also poke fun at the author.  The stories are true and constantly shadowed by "The Potts Factor" (which appears to be similar to "Murphy's Law"), but expanded in its' extremity.

Potts' description follows this scenario in most instances.  "it very simply states that if something has 50/50 chance of going right, it will go wrong nine times out of ten!"  Potts says some of his readers have informed him that the chances of him ever being accused of being a writer are very slim but that he tells a hell of a good story to print!  Accordingly, in his introduction he says, "Here are more of my stories in print.  The stories are not sequential, any one of them will lull you to sleep as well as the rest!"

 

 

Book Prices

 

The Potts Factor's Return Hard Cover $25
  Soft Cover $20
  S & H $3
     
The Potts Factor Versus Murphy's Law Hard Cover $28.50
  Soft Cover $23.50
  S & H $3
     
Look Down on the Stars Hard Cover $23.50
  Soft Cover $19.50
  S & H $3

 

 

 

All books are subject to present 6% Idaho State Sales Tax.

As a Christmas Promotion, all orders of 3 or more books will have S & H waived!

 

 

To order Book(s)

Send Check or Money Order to:

Stanley Potts Enterprises

4 Redside Way

Shoup, Idaho 83469

Include your name, mailing address, physical address and e-mail.  Books will be shipped via USPS.

 

 

Stanley Potts Enterprises

4 Redside Way

Shoup, Idaho 83469

(208) 394-2135

thepottsfactor@wildblue.net

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