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    Way out in Alaska in 1905, he made his own dentures

    Erwin A. “Nimrod” Robertson came originally from Maine, where he had been a jeweler. He was also a champion rifleman in the Maine National Guard in the 1890s. But the Klondike Gold Rush called to Nimrod just as it called to many others. In 1898, Nimrod came over Chilkoot Pass and...
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    The most important bushcraft skill

    The most essential bushcraft skill does not involve making things. It does not require tools. It does not require special “kit.” It only requires the right outlook and the right habits of mind. The most fundamental bush skill of all is the ability to see, hear, smell, and understand what...
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    Provisions for Winter Camping

    Now that it's winter, I imagine everybody is thinking about what food to take along on a winter camping trip. Here, for your edification and amusement, is Warwick Carpenter's list from 1913: From Warwick Stevens Carpenter, Winter Camping (NY: MacMillan, 1913): Food list for four people...
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    Jack Turner on "Wildness"

    The following quotes are from Jack Turner: THE ABSTRACT WILD (Univ. of Arizona Press, 1996). The numbers in parentheses are page numbers. I hope you find Turner's remarks thought-provoking. ------------------------- We treat the natural world according to our experience of it. Without...
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    R.M. Patterson describes an early cold bivouac

    I spent the winter finishing off the cabin, cutting and pointing tamarack fence posts, learning a bit about the trapline and finding out how to make a winter trip in the bush. I went everywhere on foot – to the store on Big Prairie, to the little settlement at the Battle River crossing, to...
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    R.M. Patterson, Canadian Adventurer

    Raymond Murray Patterson – R.M. Patterson – was born in Darlington, County Durham, England in 1898. He was an only child of a tempestuous marriage. His father was a newspaperman who left England in 1901 to report on the Boer War in South Africa and then didn't return to England for...
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