First Wilderness, Revised Edition. Sam Keith

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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)

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      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

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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

FOREWORD	An Unmet Friend BY NICK JANS
MAPS
INTRODUCTION	Buried Treasure BY BRIAN LIES
PREFACE	Longings
CHAPTER 1	Out of the Nest
CHAPTER 2	The Jumping-Off Place
CHAPTER 3	The Transplanting
CHAPTER 4	Taking Hold
CHAPTER 5	Local Color
CHAPTER 6	Winter Smorgasbord
CHAPTER 7	Days of the Bear
CHAPTER 8	Into the Backcountry
CHAPTER 9	Kenai Moose Hunt
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