Ironbender recommended this book. It is the journal of Andrew Berg. He came to Alaska as a nineteen year old immigrant of Finnish extraction. I believe he hit the Kenai Peninsula about 1889. He hunted, fished, trapped, guided, and a little prospecting. In his early days he had a gun incident and was shot in the left wrist, that made his left hand virtuously useless. The day to day journal was great. Andrew made knives from scratch and made gun parts, like a firing pin for his 22 pistol.
Andrew fought a heart condition for his last eleven years. He just laid up in one of his cabins after blacking out. The next day he was felling birch trees and used his dog to drag them to the cabin to saw up and split. He called a rick to be 6' tall, 9' long, and I believe 18" in depth.
Tough, tough men!
Now, how do you fish with a net year round. Maybe he knocked a hole in the ice and just dropped one end into the lake?
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