How Coleman Became an Outdoors Icon
And why it’s been synonymous with camping equipment for more than a century.
Russell Chatham: Moods of the American West
It would be very easy – and so much fun – to write about Russell Chatham as a Rabelaisian voluptuary, the kind of man who woke up every morning in a California-king-sized bed surrounded by empty bottles of Chateau Haut-Brion and empty-minded cheerleaders and with only...
Nighthawk: Unique and Custom Perfection
A long, long time ago, when I was flat-bellied and wide-eyed and had more hair than brains, a much older, more sophisticated friend took me to a rare gun store in his hometown. It was in an old part of his historic town, where the buildings all dated back to the...
Springfield’s Emissary: Shooting Chocolate Cake
Amazon got its start in a garage. Google was started in a dorm room and eventually upgraded to a garage. Today’s Springfield Armory beats them both— it got its start in a corn crib before eventually upgrading to building M1A rifles in a former diner. The original...
Mint Juleps and Memories
Historically the most elegant, the most typically Southern of all alcoholic beverages, the mint julep remains a symbol of the vanished South.
An Adventurous Lady
Gertrude Legendre lived a life of adventure, hunting virtually around the world, hobnobbing with kings and celebrities, and then while serving her country, somehow surviving capture by the German Gestapo. The guests at Medway Plantation had finished dinner and moved...
Reunion Hunt
The author and his old TV sidekick Gerald McRaney get back together to hunt big whitetails, and in some unusual ways.
Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson Hole
Drive north from Jackson on Highway 89, into the heart of the National Elk Refuge. If you’re alert, if you know it’s there and you’re looking for it, you might see the museum. On the other hand, you might not, and that’s intentional. When my father was stationed in...
Eddie Bauer: A Brief History
Bauer set out to create a jacket – he ended up creating a successful and innovative company and helping win World War II.
