The late naturalist’s remote lifestyle has captivated Americans—myself included—for decades. Would a visit to his off-grid wilderness shack live up to its beloved image? It’s late June, and after ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

But it’s getting increasingly difficult to recreate historical methods. Though Alaska is not short on space, it’s illegal to simply cut down trees and build a log cabin wherever you please. This is a ...

He started building his little log cabin, all by himself, in 1968. He was 51, and had already lived a hard life, and the spot he chose was perhaps a reflection of that: just steps from the picturesque ...

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 ...