From the time he was a young man, Dick Proenneke lived a life of rugged individualism. Growing up in Iowa during the Great ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dick Proenneke's simple, yet profound account of his 30 year adventure in the remote Alaska wilderness continues in this sequel to "Alone in the Wilderness". Watch through his eyes as he continues to ...

After an accident at work years later nearly left Dick Proenneke blind, he decided to devote his life to living it as he saw fit. Nowadays, you can find entire sections of the internet devoted to ...

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 ...