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 President Donald J. Trump doesn’t own a dog. This fact makes him only the third president in United States history not to have any pets. Neither James K. Polk nor Andrew Johnson kept pets either. The last president not to own a dog was William McKinley but he did have a cat and parr...

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...