Monroe Robinson’s “The Handcrafted Life of Dick Proenneke” is a treasure and complement to the story of Alaska’s blue-collar wilderness diarist Richard Proenneke, whose Bush life is detailed in part ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The late naturalist’s remote lifestyle has captivated Americans—myself included—for decades. Would a visit to his off-grid ...

Most Alaskans know and love the films of Dick Proenneke - especially Alone in the Wilderness. Something about Dick's self-reliance, the purity of his vision, and his skill at whittling wooden spoons ...

In 1968, one man films his attempt to build a cabin and live in the Alaskan wilderness. He goes weeks or months at a time without human contact. Dick filmed his adventures so he could show his ...

One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey. 50 th Anniversary Edition, by Sam Keith from the journals and photographs of Dick Proenneke. Alaska Northwest Books, 2018. 272 pages. $19.99. This classic ...

DONNELLSON — The Donnellson Public Library will celebrate the 106th birthday of a Lee County man who went to live alone in the hostile Alaskan wilderness and became an icon of that state. The public ...

For more than 30 years a man by the name of Dick Proenneke lived alone in the Alaskan Bush. His only neighbors were the wolves and grizzly bears and his only transportation was his canoe and a good ...

Dick Proenneke was an American naturalist who lived alone in the high mountains of Alaska at a place called Twin Lakes. Living simply in a log cabin he constructed by hand, Proenneke made valuable ...

Fans of the popular Alaska book "One Man's Wilderness" may be curious about how its author, Sam Keith, and its subject, Dick Proenneke, first met. Both men died in 2003. Ten years later, Keith's ...