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Naked in the Woods: Joseph Knowles and the Legacy of Frontier Fakery

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Joseph Knowles used to be a forty-five-year-old part-time painter, ex-Navy man, friend of the Sioux, and onetime hunting guide who stepped-just about naked-into the woods to live off the land and his own devices. From 1913 to 1916, Knowles’s dispatches to the sector-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 in reality live on for months at a time within the untamed wilderness with none aid, and why is the solution still so important to the American psyche? Part adventure story, part cultural investigation, Naked within the Woods reveals an entire new dimension of our natural history.
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