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Alone in the Wilderness

Melensdad

Melensdad

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I found this site fascinating to review.

http://www.aloneinthewilderness.com/index.html

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Alone in the Wilderness is the story of Dick Proenneke, one man who lived his dream in the Alaska Wilderness. The site tells of a man who lived in the Alaskan wilderness until his 82nd year, when he finally departed for an easier life. He died a few years later but lived such an extraordinary life that a documentary was made about his time in Alaska.

He donated his cabin to the US Park Service, and it is now part of Lake Clark National Park.

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Just thought some of you might find this an interesting website.
 
Excellent find....wish I could add points for you but have to spread them around first. Thanks for sharing with us.:flowers:
 
i worked at alexander lake lodge as a kid fo a guy who was the same way he homesteaded there before ww2 worked on fishing boats in the summer trapped in the winter than he opened his lodge for hunting and fishing and spent the rest of his life there an interesting fact he hoboed on trains to get accross country on his way to alaska the sane way my wifes dad got here the is a book written about my wifes dad its the final frontiersman he traps to this day up in anwr ihe trap line is grandfathered in kind of funny how we both kind of grew up the same.

ps alexander lake has 2 snow tracs that lyndon has never saw sitting out there one is a st4 2 band tac and the other is a st-4b 5 band track so i guess he hasn't owned every one in the state does seem like it.
 
Yes, watched the DVD. Loved every minute of it. Dick was a stable, positive and very capable settler.
 
Neat guy, but I know a bunch of guys just like him here.... All are a pretty hardy bunch to boot.
 
i know some one like that too my father in law spends his whole winter north of the brooks range in a 1 room cabin trapping he raised 3 girls out their and lost one in an accedent his trapline is in the arctic national wild life refuge and is grand fathered in no one else other than him or his direct relitives can live out there you can read about it in the book the final frontiersman also some reality shoow like tougher in alaska was up there filming this winterso i expect to see Himo on Tv some time this summer
 
They are in the process of putting me in a can too . just got done with there filming last July 09.. To be a 5 to 7 hour doumentry for TV.. One done already a short interview ... On TV.. You can pull it up .. www.kstp.com " on the road " By Jason Davis Ch 5 Mpls Mn. program dated Febuary 21 2009, called, " Wilderness Some thing ???" A short 15 min thing... The big one will be from 1985 to last year. Most of the filmming was done by me.. They changed the film all to TV brodcastable , and chopped a lot out , had too , But it should be interesting and fast. To be showen in parts. It may be awhile before it goes public . I helped them edit and Narrate. That was fun being interviewed on camera. I Do hope it turns out well. May be called ?." The Last Federal Home steader to have filed " The last to sign any way ...I am still here too. 77 miles true North of Mt Mckinley Mt. 34 miles N. W. of Lake Minchumina, and 10 miles South of Wein Lake. Way above the 5 lakes to my south, On 1,205' elv.
 
Dick seemed like a good guy. I was in the area at the time. His book is good reading. crashed his plane on the way south one year .He didn't spend many winters at the lake.
Jim
 
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