Voices with a world
of their own.

1860–1946

Ernest Thompson Seton

The wild as a school of close attention.

1806–1854

Robert Montgomery Bird

Where civilization becomes a fragile line.

1863–1947

Henry Ford

The factory as an argument.

1790–1853

Lady Florentia Sale

A diary written inside the collapse.

1857–1941

Robert Baden-Powell

British general and founder of the Boy Scouts.

1821–1890

George Washington Sears

Go light; the lighter the better.

1823–1893

Francis Parkman

The West before it became a legend.

1793–1868

James Hall

Soldier, frontier judge, chronicler of the West.

1850–1941

Daniel Carter Beard

The buildings here suggested require a woodsman more than an architect.

1856–1925

H. Rider Haggard

Most alive as a writer when a line across a map opened into country not yet crossed.

1848–1887

Richard Jefferies

The wind went seawards, and the stars are always over the ocean.

1771–1810

Charles Brockden Brown

“Brown is great as ever human writer was in showing the self-sustaining force of which a lonely mind is capable.” — Margaret Fuller, 1846

1856–1937

James B. Gillett

Six years in the saddle, written down forty years later.

1838–1916

James J. Hill

His rails crossed a continent.

1863–1942

Sir Francis Younghusband

Before conquest came the attempt.

1850–1894

Robert Louis Stevenson

He drew an island, and the story followed.

1847–1920

Joshua Duke

The Great Game seen from the road, the battlefield and the hospital tent.

1836–1905

Sir Charles William Wilson

He reached Khartum forty-eight hours too late.

1888–1938

Grey Owl

The frontier was closing. The wilderness remained.

1806–1870

William Gilmore Simms

Novelist of the Southern Border

1859–1930

Arthur Conan Doyle

Physician, traveller and storyteller

1789–1851

James Fenimore Cooper

The man who gave the American wilderness a voice

1868–1950

Edwin Tappan Adney

Artist, Correspondent, Witness of the North

1861–1924

Major-General Sir Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend, K.C.B., D.S.O.

1860–1946

Sir George Arthur

Sir George Compton Archibald Arthur, 3rd Baronet

1858–1919

Theodore Roosevelt

Historian, naturalist, soldier and statesman

1856–1918

Napoleon Augustus Jennings

Ranger, Reporter and Chronicler of the Border

1796–1888

George Robert Gleig

Soldier · Clergyman · Military Historian

1847–1924

Henry Doveton Hutchinson

Soldier · Military Educator · Historian

1860–1933

William Robertson

Soldier · Intelligence Officer · Chief of the Imperial General Staff

1859–1928

Major-General Sir Charles Edward Callwell, K.C.B.

1862–1936

Charles John Melliss

George John: 1859–1944 · Francis Edward: 1863–1942

George John Younghusband & Francis Edward Younghusband

The Relief of Chitral

16 January 1853 – 12 October 1947

General Sir Ian Hamilton

The commander and the witness

19 January 1809 – 7 October 1849

Edgar Allan Poe

Poet · Critic · Editor · Author of Tales

1832–1914

Frederick Sleigh Roberts

From the Bengal Artillery to command in India.

1840–1887

Charles Metcalfe MacGregor

Soldier, explorer and military geographer.

1862–1931

Horace Sowers Kephart

A librarian’s exactness, carried into the mountain camp.

1840–1904

William Henry Harrison Murray

The Adirondacks within reach of a city reader.

c. 1876–1960

Warren Hastings Miller

The camp as a problem in practical design.

1844–1935

Elihu Stewart

Northern rivers seen from the deck of a steamer.

1848–1919

Samuel Benfield Steele

Mounted Police officer, soldier and the Lion of the Yukon.

1810–1895

Henry Creswicke Rawlinson

Soldier, envoy and decipherer of Behistun, who warned of the Russian advance on India.

1853–1907

George Rutledge Gibson

A Wall Street broker reads the markets of three capitals.

1807–1873

Sir Robert John Le Mesurier McClure

From the Bering Strait to Mercy Bay.

1786–1866

Winfield Scott