The world is full of such things.” Proenneke left Twin Lakes in 1998, when he was 82, to move in with his brother in California. He donated his log cabin and most of his possessions to the National ...

Proenneke lived at Twin Lakes (now in Lake Clark National Park) intermittently from 1967 to 1999 in the log cabin he built. Robinson is a respected professional woodworker here in Alaska and on ...

Proenneke constructed the simple lodge on the ... stature as an excellent and well-known example of an Alaskan bush log cabin.' 'It is also recognized for Richard Proenneke's voice in the ...

I am embarrassed to admit that I only recently read “One Man’s Wilderness,” the story of Dick Proenneke ... simply cut down trees and build a log cabin wherever you please.

Dick Proenneke did what most nature buffs can only dream of: At age 51, he quit his job as a mechanic and moved to the Alaskan wilderness to become one with nature. He set up camp on the shores of ...

He started building his little log cabin, all by himself ... bears and caribou and wolves that roamed the backwood. And DIck Proenneke, born in Iowa with a love of the woods, would stay right ...