Saturday, February 27, 2010

The Great Outdoors: The Life & Times of Claude and Mary Tidd.


Claude Tidd. Born in England, 1886. Left for the Yukon at age 24. 20 years as a Royal Mountie. Married Mary Ryder in 1925. Avid outdoorsm
an, photographer
, musician, writer and film maker. Died in Dersingham, England, 1949. A frontier renaissance man. The real deal. To read more on Claude and Mary, click HERE. To view more of Claude's photos from his life in the Yukon, click HERE.



























7 comments:

Sam said...

Looks like a happy, well lived life

Walter said...

Yes!

candycane said...

great story! just linked it ... don't make em' like that anymore!

http://reallifeiselsewhere.blogspot.com/2010/02/claude-mary-tidd.html

P.M said...

Such an epic post.

Probably the definitive Secret Forts post.

Holy shit, I don't even know where to start....

Thanks for sharing this goldmine.

Ulysses said...

This is what the fuck I'm talking about

Rebecca (Dog-Eared) said...

love the 'god help those..' sign.

m said...

so rad. thanks! -m