About Peter F. Crowley

Peter F. Crowley, author of Outdoor Follies was born and raised in Ashland, Wisconsin, a small town in northern Wisconsin bordering on Lake Superior.

After four years in the U.S. Navy, Crowley earned a B.S. degree from the University of Wisconsin, Superior.

During his business career, he was fortunate to be able to spend many hours fishing, camping, hunting, hiking, biking and berry picking in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Wyoming and Canada.

Part time freelance writer, Crowley has been published in Outdoor Life, Field & Stream, Bowhunter Magazine, Wisconsin Sportsman, Fur Fish & Game and Badger Sportsman.

This collection of humorous outdoor stories is Crowley's first book.

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"Crowley spins a good yarn, and he has a knack for dragging the reader along, as one unlikely event follows another on the way to an almost-believable outcome. . . If you have ever stayed one cast too long on the water, slogged one mile too far up the trail or thrown one too many logs on the fire, then it's a safe bet you'll find yourself in some of Crowley's misadventures."
- DAN SMALL, PhD, Producer, Outdoor Wisconsin Television

Part-time freelance writer for twenty-five years, Pete Crowley has been published in several national magazines including, Outdoor Life, Field & Stream, Fur, Fish & Game, Bowhunter Magazine and Fins & Feathers.

Reviews

In a time when hunting and fishing stories typically focus on what was shot or caught, a new book has hit the shelves that reminds us all to focus on the experience of being in the outdoors, not just on the possibility of bringing home a trophy ...

Interspersed throughout "Outdoor Follies," between the humor-driven tales, are several true and thoughtfully-told stories, dealing with everything from escaping injurious harm during a test drive of a new boat, to encouraging his teenage son to stay in the woods long enough to bag his first buck.

Though his touch with humor is what makes this book shine, Crowley manages to tell these more serious stories in a light enough manner that they only help to round out an already worth read, rather than weigh it down ...

With that in mind, "Outdoor Follies" is heartily recommended for sportsmen and women alike who have become bogged down with the artificial expectation that an adventure in the woods or on the water is only a success if the game bag or cooler is full on the trip home.

--The Lakeland Times, Minocqua, Wisconsin.

Anyone who has ever spent a reasonable (or unreasonable) amount of time in the great outdoors has accumulated their own personal store of sportsman's war stories ...

There is a great literature in these tales, thanks to immortals like Pat McManus and Cory Ford ...
Keeping the fine tradition of the hot stove story alive is Ashland author Peter F. Crowley. Crowley, who grew up when in Ashland during the golden decade of the 50's, when a kid could get away with a lot of stuff, like canoeing down a flood swollen Bay City Creek with a terrified friend, headed for sure death in a pitch black railroad bridge tunnel.

"I decided I'd take it like a man ... screaming with my eyes clenched tightly shut. Then when we didn't immediately capsize, I tentatively opened them. It was unbelievable! Completely and totally black! The sounds of cascading water which was magnified by the echo effect of The Tunnel, was like a thousand screaming demons from Hell. At that moment I was certain I was going to die, either from drowning or fright."

That's the tale that sets the general tone of the book. Crowley recounts a number of disasters, great and small which have been his faithful companions over a lifetime misspent in the outdoors ...

--The Daily Press, Ashland, Wisconsin.