Outdoors On Edge James Carlos Blake wrote about the savagery of the human experience. He wrote about outlaws, murderers, bootleggers, smugglers, gun runners, lovers and dreamers, people who embrace being such and those fighting to erase the demons of their past. Most of his novels were set in the pa...

Outdoors On Edge Matthew Henson, Robert E. Peary and the rest of Peary’s new expedition returned to Greenland in 1898. They tried for the North Pole several times over the next two years, but each attempt suffered worse than the last. Following the death of six Inuit in their group, the expedition r...

Outdoors On Edge He was born into a family of sharecroppers and orphaned by the age of eight, yet faced every hardship as it came to go on to become the first man to reach the North Pole. His name was Matthew Henson and like most men of color who came of age in the late 1800s, recognition of his tru...

Outdoors On Edge Forget your politics. Pr e s i d ent James Earl (Jimmy) Carter Jr. died on Dec. 29, 2024, and the outdoor world has lost its best all...

Outdoors On Edge At the end of last week’s Christmas- themed column, I stated that, “writing this column and receiving feedback from all of you via em...

It’s Weihnachtszeit — which I am told means Christmastime in German — and as such, I thought we’d have some fun looking at animals associated with the...