Sam Keith

First Wilderness, Revised Edition


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      First Wilderness

       My Quest in the Territory of Alaska

       BY SAM KEITH

      Author of One Man’s Wilderness

      REVISED EDITION

      with Color Images

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      Text and photographs © 2014 by Sam Keith, Brian Lies, and Laurel Keith Lies

      First Printing of Revised Edition 2018

      This edition:

      ISBN 9781513261652 (paperback)

      ISBN 9781513261829 (hardbound)

      ISBN 9781513261836 (e-book)

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission of the publisher.

      The Library of Congress has cataloged the earlier edition as follows:

      Keith, Sam.

      First wilderness : my quest in the territory of Alaska / by Sam Keith.

      pages cm

      ISBN 978-1-941821-09-1 (paperback)

      ISBN 978-1-941821-19-0 (e-book)

      ISBN 978-1-941821-34-3 (hardbound)

      1. Keith, Sam. 2. Keith, Sam—Travel—Alaska. 3. Wilderness areas—Alaska. 4. Outdoor life—Alaska. 5. Frontier and pioneer life—Alaska. 6. Pioneers—Alaska—Biography. 7. Adventure and adventurers—Alaska—Biography. 8. Proenneke, Richard—Friends and associates. 9. Kodiak Island (Alaska)—Description and travel. 10. Kenai Peninsula (Alaska)—Description and travel. I. Title.

      F909.K28A3 2014

      979.8—dc23

      2014017710

      Edited by Tricia Brown

      Maps by Ani Rucki

      Alaska Northwest Books®

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      To my sister, Anna, and my wife, Jane.

      I think of you and I think of home.

      The Land of Beyond

      Have ever you heard of the Land of Beyond,

      That dreams at the gates of the day?

      Alluring it lies at the skirts of the skies,

      And ever so far away;

      Alluring it calls; O ye the yoke galls,

      And yet of the trail overfond,

      With saddle and pack, by paddle and track,

      Let’s go to the Land of Beyond!

      Have ever you stood where the silences brood,

      And vast the horizons begin,

      At the dawn of the day to behold far away

      The goal you would strive for a win?

      Yet ah! In the night when you gain to the height,

      With the vast pool of heaven star-spawned,

      Afar and agleam, like a valley of dream,

      Still mocks you a Land of Beyond.

      —From Rhymes of a Rolling Stone by Robert W. Service

      Contents

FOREWORDAn Unmet Friend BY NICK JANS
MAPS
INTRODUCTIONBuried Treasure BY BRIAN LIES
PREFACELongings
CHAPTER 1Out of the Nest
CHAPTER 2The Jumping-Off Place
CHAPTER 3The Transplanting
CHAPTER 4Taking Hold
CHAPTER 5Local Color
CHAPTER 6Winter Smorgasbord
CHAPTER 7Days of the Bear
CHAPTER 8Into the Backcountry
CHAPTER 9Kenai Moose Hunt
CHAPTER 10Comings and Goings
CHAPTER 11Boomerang Alaskan
CHAPTER 12The Bay of the Winds
CHAPTER 13Enforcement Patrolman
CHAPTER 14Driving Out
EPILOGUEA Nest of My Own
AFTERWORD