In the movie Sunset Boulevard the aging movie star Norma Desmond laments, “We didn’t need voices then; we had faces.” She is talking about the era of silent films, some of which are still remembered today, but are not destined to return. The “talkies”—movies with dialogue—are here to stay. Jeremiah Johnson Quotes
“His name was Jeremiah Johnson, and they say he wanted to be a mountain man.” As we hear those words spoken in the voice of a narrator off-screen, on the movie screen itself we see Robert Redford emerging from a keelboat at a frontier outpost. We aren’t given the location, but we
If you have been following Case Knives the past few years, you have likely noticed their American Heroes Knife Series. It is a collaboration between Case, Winkler Knives and an American veteran with experience in what works and what doesn’t. Their latest collaboration, the Case Winkler Pack Axe is a solid example
On a backpacking trip in Alaska, I found the broken base of a moose antler. It gathered dust until I thought it might provide part of the stack handle on a knife. I had some seasoned walnut for the rest of the handle, but I lacked the key ingredient of a blade.
Horace Kephart (1862-1931), famous as the “Dean of American Camping,” began his professional life focused on scholarly pursuits. At a time when only about 6 percent of Americans graduated from high school, he attended college and was a librarian at Cornell and Yale Universities. Cornell’s first librarian, Daniel Willard Fiske, later employed
Those who go into the outdoors prepared rarely need rescuing, but when they do it’s usually not a disaster story. Most people lost or stranded in the backcountry of the lower U.S. states are found within the first 72 hours. Fortunately, they are usually found even sooner today thanks to cell phones.
