E. Jean Carroll is a longtime contributor to Outside. Most recently, in 2018, she wrote “Miss Jean’s Wild Ride,” a story about love in the outdoors, for Outside Online.
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One of the first women to make a splash during Outside’s formative years was E. Jean Carroll, who in 1981 reported on a championship that was equal parts rodeo and beauty pageant. She came back with a story that advanced the magazine’s rambunctious style and treated saddle queens with the respect they deserve.
What happens when America's most fabulous advice columnist fires up her polka-dot car and hits the road to ask total strangers about love and cleaving in a bunch of tiny towns called Eden? Let's just put it this way: Paradise is Regained, and John Milton himself would have said, “Oh. My. God.”