And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Put this together with Dick Proenneke's's "Alone in the Wilderness" and you'll go all Iron John in no time. Get some buckskins and a good hatchet and knife and you're ready to go.
Read everything he wrote, that I could get my hands on when I was a kid. Still have some of his books around here, somewhere.
ReplyDeleteDitto to Catfish..."We Like it Wild" was my first.
ReplyDeleteI really liked his books! "One Acre and Security" was the first one I read..
ReplyDelete"Cache Lake Country" is well illustrated and instructive as well.
ReplyDeletedon't forget your cellphone and tanto!
ReplyDeletePut this together with Dick Proenneke's's "Alone in the Wilderness" and you'll go all Iron John in no time. Get some buckskins and a good hatchet and knife and you're ready to go.
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