Outdoor Life's editorial coverage followed its audience's interests in new developments, such as aviation, boating, and motor vehicles.

Over the years, many notable people have contributed to the magazine: former President Teddy Roosevelt contributed from 1901 to 1904; Zane Grey, a well-known adventure writer and big game fisherman, was a frequent contributor between 1918 and 1932; and Ernest Hemingway was accompanied by an Outdoor Life writer on a marlin fishing trip to Cuba in 1935.

For many years, Outdoor Life was owned by the Popular Science Publishing Company, which was purchased by Times Mirror in 1967.

[2] The Outdoor Life Conservation Award was first given in 1923 to those who “accomplish the greatest good for the sportsmen’s cause in the United States,” said founder J.A.

Established in 1946 and then revised in 1993, it has been taken by thousands of people including Harry Truman and Al Gore, and it runs on the letters page of every issue of the magazine.

I promise to educate future generations so they may become caretakers of our water, air, land and wildlife.”[5] In 2004, the magazine released a computer game.