Naked in the Woods: Joseph Knowles and the Legacy of Frontier FakeryDa Capo Press, 2007 - 352 páginas Joseph Knowles was a forty-five-year-old part-time painter, ex-Navy man, friend of the Sioux, and onetime hunting guide who stepped-nearly naked-into the woods to live off the land and his own devices. From 1913 to 1916, Knowles's dispatches to the world-alternating accounts of bear clubbing and quiet contemplation, written in charcoal on pieces of birch bark-set off major newspaper wars, exploiting readers' fears of modernization. Did Knowles really survive for months at a time in the untamed wilderness without any aid, and why is the answer still so vital to the American psyche? Part adventure story, part cultural investigation, Naked in the Woods reveals a whole new dimension of our natural history. |
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... trail and were the last to catch a glimpse of this modern Adam . Allen was reportedly concerned that the task was daunting , but respected Knowles's wilderness skills . Finally , even these two shadows were left behind . From then on ...
... trail and were the last to catch a glimpse of this modern Adam . Allen was reportedly concerned that the task was daunting , but respected Knowles's wilderness skills . Finally , even these two shadows were left behind . From then on ...
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... Trail for people headed north ) . The Helon Taylor Trail is named after him . Taylor was convinced that Knowles could have done it , and he remained regretful many years later that the Nature Man hadn't bothered to exert himself . " I ...
... Trail for people headed north ) . The Helon Taylor Trail is named after him . Taylor was convinced that Knowles could have done it , and he remained regretful many years later that the Nature Man hadn't bothered to exert himself . " I ...
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... trail back in time , you go to the opposite coast and start in Boston , where the Copley Plaza Hotel ( now called the Fairmont Copley ) still features its 1912 decorative splendor . The big dining room , with its intricately carved ...
... trail back in time , you go to the opposite coast and start in Boston , where the Copley Plaza Hotel ( now called the Fairmont Copley ) still features its 1912 decorative splendor . The big dining room , with its intricately carved ...
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The Makings of a Nature Man | 25 |
The Toast of Boston | 49 |
Faking It in the Fading Frontier | 85 |
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According adventures American animals appeared Arthur Hammerstein artist Astoria bear bearskin Bill Black Stork Boone BOSTON POST PHOTO Buffalo Buffalo Bill cabin California called claimed clothing Cody Crockett crowd Dawn Woman deer described Edyth Elaine Hammerstein etchings Everett Ruess experiment film fire fish forest frontier girl Grey Owl Hearst Hotel Monticello hunting Ilwaco Ilwaco Heritage Museum Indian interview Ishi Ishi's Joe Knowles JOICE HETH Joseph Knowles Journal King & Bartlett Knowles wrote Knowles's Kroeber Lake later Liberty Theater living Long Beach Peninsula Longview Maine McKeogh Megantic miles Mountain naked nature fakers Nature Man's never newspaper Oregon Oscar Ota Benga paintings paper picture Portland primitive reported San Francisco says Scouts Seaview Seton skin star story Sunday told town trail trees trip ture vaudeville Waterman wilderness William Wilton woodcraft woods writes York