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Another vintage book...
"Alone in the Wilderness" - Joseph Knowles
Turned out to be the original "Naked and Afraid" except he didn't have a chick along...
Written in 1913. I enjoyed reading it although I had some reservations about him killing the deer with his bare hands. Not doubting the authenticity, but I put my hands on a live deer in my strapping youth and learned that they are much stronger than I was and snapping its neck wold be quite a feat.
Also, September and October in Maine would be a tad chilly for me to be running around in the rain necked.
I did enjoy reading it though.
Alan
https://archive.org/details/aloneinw...00know/page/n7
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Some of those old timers could tell some tall tales.
I never believed the Robin Hood story of him splitting an arrow with another arrow. I think that was Robin Hood. Then I saw pictures of my nephew doing it from 25 yds. He's a vegan. Terrible waste of marksmanship. lol.
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When I saw the title of this thread I thought of the Sam Keith book based on the Richard Proenneke journals. But that was called " One Man's Wilderness". The John Branson-edited journals are more interesting.The documentary that they used to show on PBS was called" Alone in the Wilderness". Maybe that's what I was thinking of.
Other than a few close encounters with a grizzly bear the tales are not tall. lol
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Say what you want but some folks can do it. Some say Crash might be able to do it. I say Mrs. Crash but a lot depends on who's holding the tomahawk as to who I think did it...if you know what I mean.
http://i.imgur.com/iPx7zim.jpg
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I remember that from our first jamboree. Fun times.
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That was back when Rick was selling those tomahawks, wasn't it?