"I would rather have this book published than anything that has ever been written about me," Theodore Roosevelt said to his editor shortly before TR's death in January 1919. Alas , Roosevelt was never to see publication of the collection, which went on to become an instant bestseller that was reprinted six times between September and November ......
The path to an adventurous life seems straightforward: Crush at an outdoor sport; amass a legion of followers who drool at your hero shots on Instagram; host TED talks exhorting people to live their best life, brah. But there is another way: the way of the Wilderness Idiot. Author Ted Alvarez built a career and an outdoor lifestyle by simply not ......
Bangor Daily News outdoors columnist Aislinn Sarnacki presents 35 hikes around Maine that you can feel comfortable taking your dog on. Includes recommendations for lodging, restaurants, beaches, and parks.
In the next book in the award-winning Scout Moore series the ever-adventurous junior ranger ("I am ranger of my own backyard!") travels with her family to Yellowstone National Park, where they visit thermal features, watch wildlife, and gaze in wonder at the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. Along the way her younger brother Wesley insists they ......
Fly-Fishing Memories and Lessons From Twelve Rivers
In this collection of essays about well-known (and some not-so-well-known) Western waters-John Day River steelhead, the Deschutes and its headwaters, the Sandy, Klickitat, and Columbia Rivers, the Olympic Peninsula, trout fishing in Idaho and Montana, to name a few-author Tom Alkire blends how-to, where-to, and natural history with lyrical prose ......
A Story of Pearl Harbor, Football, and World War II
This is a story of the very first days of World War II as experienced by a group of young men who witnessed it firsthand - and would soon be fighting it (indeed, who were already fighting it).
The Wild Story of the West's First Brotherhood of Thieves, Assassins, and Train Robbers
The true story of the world's first robbery of a moving train, and the real origins of the Wild West They were the first outlaws to rob a moving train. But from 1864 to 1868, the Reno brothers and their gang of counterfeiters, robbers, burglars, and safecrackers also held the town of Seymour, Indiana, hostage, making a large hotel near the train ......
Burmah Adams, Tom White, and the 1933 Crime Spree that Terrorized Los Angeles
Nineteen-year-old Burmah Adams, a hairdresser and former Santa Ana High School student, spent her honeymoon on a crime spree. She and her husband of less than one week, White, an ex-con, robbed at least twenty people in and around downtown L.A. at gunpoint over an eight-week period. But the worst of their crimes was the shooting of a popular ......
