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Re: Denali Park: the final wilderness in America

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From: Richard Ottolini
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 1996 00:00
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In article <4ovvhv$8vq@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, CyFred <cyfred@aol.com> wrote:
>I recently met a fellow named Richard Leo. He's a person who walked off
>(way, way off) into the woods fifteen years ago and just now wrote a
>little book about his experiences. Richard moved from New York City to the
>middle of nowhere in Alaska a decade and a half ago (so far out in the
>middle of nowhere, in fact, that he actually homesteaded). I didn't even
>think it was still possible to homestead in this country. ...Lest any of

PBS (Nova?) ran a documentary on Alaskan homesteaders a couple years.
They followed some individuals and families.
I remember one funny scene on "101 ways to eat caribou", because this
one family lived mostly off the land and would work their way through
the same animal for weeks at a time.
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From: stgprao@sugarland.unocal.COM (Richard Ottolini)
Subject: Re: Denali Park: the final wilderness in America
Date: 1996/06/04
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