A Columnist Looks at Life

by Calvin Rutstrum

This book represents 46 newspaper essays that he wrote for the Osceola Sun (Wisconsin) newspaper. These represent some free swinging outdoor and social comments from the then 84 year old Rutstrum. These seem to all have been originally written in 1979. It is revealing of Calvin's other life outside of wilderness instructor and wilderness essayist. Here we have some social and political comments, some of his thoughts on work and leisure and a bit deeper glance into his life.

133 pages, paperback

First published January 1, 1981

About the author

Calvin Rutstrum (1895-1982) was one of the best-known outdoorsmen of his generation and the author of many books, including The Wilderness Route Finder, Paradise Below Zero, Once Upon a Wilderness, The New Way of the Wilderness, and North American Canoe Country, all published by the University of Minnesota Press.