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I must admit I really enjoy watching that show each year when PBS does their membership run.

I don’t think I could ever rip cut a log by hand as straight as he does on that show, heck it took me a while to learn how to cut straight across the grain.

Richard Proenneke was quite a man. I've got the videos about him and the books published containing his journals. I wish there were more videos about him. Much of the footage he shot has been lost.

His cabin was 11x15 ft, and he lived in it 3o years.. wow!

He passed in 2003, somewhere in california, he was born in Iowa.

Every time I watch that DVD my blood pressure goes down 10 points.
The only thing that mars it are the occasional modern images that were inserted during editing. Brief but unwelcome.

Nothing short of an American Craftsman.

When will it air? I've seen it before, but it never gets old.

I always love watching that show. He is a little info on cabin and him from NPS.


https://www.nps.gov/lacl/learn/historyculture/proennekes-cabin.htm


https://www.nps.gov/lacl/learn/historyculture/richard-l-proenneke.htm

Best show ever on PBS.

Man i hate those suckers running PBS.

Hell with PBS

watch it anytime on the youtube

You can buy some of the videos right here http://dickproenneke.com/. The man that produced these was a friend of Dick's. Dick saw the first one right before he passed away. He lived with his brother Raymond in California the last 3 years of his life. Dick was born in Primrose, Iowa. Located in the southeast corner of the state. Some of his family is still around there, I was told by a man who's dad knew most all of them including Dick.

Dick was quite a unique person. To be so isolated he had many friends all over. One of which was Jay Hammond, governor of Alaska at one time. He actually had a cabin at Lake Clark which is where Dick's friend Babe Alsworth lived and had an air charter service. Babe was Dick's friend and lifeline to the outside world. If you were in a jamb in the wilderness a man like Dick Proenneke would be who you could count on. In one of his journals I recall a park ranger visiting him, young guy and it was Dick's 77th birthday. The guy asked him about his age and Dick proceeded to do 77 pull ups. Those years of living the way he did made him a tough fellow to say the least! I would have considered myself blessed to be his friend had I known him.

Thank

Thank you, agree it's a much better option. Should have thought of it myself!

Thank

Thank you, agree it's a much better option. Should have thought of it myself!

Lost Art Press has a book on on his woodworking

https://lostartpress.com/collections/books/products/the-handcrafted-life-of-dick-proenneke

If you watch it with the Vanced app for Android to strip ads out of youtube, you can watch it ad free.

he is my hero. I went to the woods of North Carolina and built a log cabin by myself. This guy built his cabin in the wilderness of Alaska.

I had two chain saws, and a circular saw and a sawzall. Proenneke had no chain saws. He had no Sawzall, because he had no electricity.

I built my own door and bought the steel hinges at Home Depot. Proenneke built his door, but made his hinges from wood. I didnt know you could do that.

I ate chicken dinner that i bought at kfc. proenneke ate caribou that he shot. No this guy is a real ad ass and a modern day Jeremiah Johnson.