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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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'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 ...

We remember watching Alone in the Woods years ago on Public Television. It’s a story of a self-sufficient man named [Dick Proenneke] who loved the outdoors and decided to live alone in the Alaskan ...

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 ...

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." In the late 1960s, Proenneke built his own ...

Dick Proenneke retired at age 50 in 1967 and decided to build his own cabin on the shore of Twin Lakes. The first summer he scouted for the best cabin site, and cut and peeled the logs he would need ...

DONNELLSON, Iowa (AP) - A replica of an Iowa native’s Alaska wilderness cabin is being built in a southeastern Iowa city. Craftsmen Pat and Denna Beelman are building a life-size replica of Richard ...

Most Alaskans know and love the films of Dick Proenneke - especially Alone in the Wilderness. Something about Dick's self-reliance, the purity of his vision, and his skill at whittling wooden spoons ...

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 ...