One Man’s Wilderness
Abstract DickProenneke (1917-) has led the sort of life many dream of. Born in Iowa, he served in the U. S. Navy during World War II, worked as a sheep herder in Oregon for a few years, and then eventually came to Alaska for the first time in 1950. In 1967, after having lived and worked around Kodia...
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Oxford University PressNew York, NY
1990
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195061024.003.0035 https://academic.oup.com/book/chapter-pdf/52479649/isbn-9780195061024-book-part-35.pdf |
| Summary: | Abstract DickProenneke (1917-) has led the sort of life many dream of. Born in Iowa, he served in the U. S. Navy during World War II, worked as a sheep herder in Oregon for a few years, and then eventually came to Alaska for the first time in 1950. In 1967, after having lived and worked around Kodiak Island and King Salmon on the Alaska Peninsula, Proenneke stayed at a friend’s cabin on Lake Clark. The area impressed him and the next summer he returned to construct his own cabin in this remote wilder ness, a story related in One Man’s Wilderness (Alaska Northwest Publishing Company, 1973). Today Dick Proenneke is a living legend around what has since become Lake Clark National Park. |
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