Unleash your inner adventurer with these inspiring ideas for the lady who loves to explore. Discover exciting destinations, thrilling activities, and tips to make your adventures unforgettable.
Annie Smith Peck was born in 1850. She was a woman ahead of her time: a mountaineer, adventurer, world traveler, and suffragette. Most of Annie Peck's travel and climbing was done in South America. When she climbed the 21,812 foot Peruvian peak Huascaran, she set the record for highest Western Hemisphere peak climbed by an American man or woman. In 1894 she became third woman to scale the Matterhorn, and the first to do so in pants.
It seems like ages since I did any costuming, and summer isn't exactly my favorite season to be layering on corsets and petticoats, but...the time has come for some Edwardian adventure wear! I think I'll start with a simple skirt and an ivory shirtwaist, luckily I already have an Edwardian corset. Now I just have to draft some patterns and go fabric shopping :) Those of you costumers out there, what are you working on this summer? (See more images that are inspiring me for this costume on my…
Hunkpapa Sioux Chief Crow fought against Lt. Col. George A. Custer and his 7th Cavalry at Little Bighorn. One of Sitting Bull’s leaders, Crow accompanied the chief and the Lakota people who found refuge in Canada from 1877-81. For a deeper understanding of the Great Sioux War and the aftermath of Custer’s defeat, visit Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument.