Monroe with Dick’s bunkbed ladder and sawbuck. Photo by Elan Robinson.

A craftsman alone in the Alaskan wilderness

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Naturalist Dick Proenneke led a legendary life alone in the Alaskan wilderness. After Proenneke's death in 2003, master craftsman Monroe Robinson painstakingly reproduced everything Dick made to preserve a piece of that life for future generations.More

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