The late naturalist’s remote lifestyle has captivated Americans—myself included—for decades. Would a visit to his off-grid wilderness shack live up to its beloved image? It’s late June, and after ...

Could you live in a home like this? This is the question YouTube creator Salina Alsworth poses to viewers as she serves up a tour of a very remote cabin built by the late naturalist Richard Proenneke.

Dick Proenneke retired at age 50 in 1967 and decided to build his own cabin in the wilderness at the base of the Aleutian Peninsula, in what is now Lake Clark National Park. Using color footage he ...

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 ...

He started building his little log cabin, all by himself, in 1968. He was 51, and had already lived a hard life, and the spot he chose was perhaps a reflection of that: just steps from the picturesque ...

Dick Proenneke was an American naturalist who lived alone in the high mountains of Alaska at a place called Twin Lakes. Living simply in a log cabin he constructed by hand, Proenneke made valuable ...