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Death of "Caveman" ends an era in Idaho
IdahoStatesman.com ^ | 23 April 2010 | Tim Woodward

Posted on 04/23/2010 2:06:25 PM PDT by maine-iac7

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To: maine-iac7

In a few years people like this guy will be required to earn enough money to buy into Obamacare.


21 posted on 04/23/2010 2:40:40 PM PDT by HEM
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To: HEM
In a few years people like this guy will be required to earn enough money to buy into Obamacare.

Au contraire...He'd be given a pill ;o)

22 posted on 04/23/2010 2:44:46 PM PDT by maine-iac7
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To: maine-iac7
Richard Zimmerman, known to all as Dugout Dick, succumbs at 94

Just shows how dangerous it is to live without the material blessings of civilization and modern medicine. Obamacare would have enabled him to live a full life. (/sarc)

23 posted on 04/23/2010 2:45:43 PM PDT by ARepublicanForAllReasons (President Zero, walking in the footsteps of Hugo Chavez)
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To: maine-iac7
Richard Zimmerman had been in declining health when he died.

Does the reporter think we wouldn't have figured that out on our own?

24 posted on 04/23/2010 2:48:38 PM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: ARepublicanForAllReasons
LOL

BTW - been meaning for some time to tell you that I really like your ID name - great take-off

25 posted on 04/23/2010 2:48:52 PM PDT by maine-iac7
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To: Noumenon

Ping.


26 posted on 04/23/2010 2:51:58 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Mr. Lucky
Does the reporter think we wouldn't have figured that out on our own?

LOL

However, given to-days level of independent thinking - he probably thought it prudent.

Other than that, I was thinking he did a much better job than what we usually read today.

27 posted on 04/23/2010 2:53:07 PM PDT by maine-iac7
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To: Cuttnhorse

The Good Life. One of my favorites too.

28 posted on 04/23/2010 2:55:20 PM PDT by Hillbillary (I know how to deal with Communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: fishtank
You’d have to own the property to do so

No one owns their property anymore. Try not paying the governments property rental tax and see what happens.

29 posted on 04/23/2010 3:00:27 PM PDT by ASA Vet (Iran should have ceased to exist Nov 5, 1979, but we had no president then either.)
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To: maine-iac7
absolutely self-sufficient. He didn't work for anybody. He worked for himself

Governments hate that.

30 posted on 04/23/2010 3:05:10 PM PDT by 1066AD
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To: maine-iac7

Read the biography of Sylvan Hart, “Last of the Mountain Men” by Harold Peterson, years ago. Interesting group of people. Fascinating lifestyle, if you could do it. We will find out after a few more years of what is going on!


31 posted on 04/23/2010 3:20:45 PM PDT by stickandrudder (Another Bitter-Clinger ----- Molon Labe ----- Let's Roll!)
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To: maine-iac7

32 posted on 04/23/2010 3:28:26 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (http://www.teapartyslogans.com/cgi-bin/web/index.cgi)
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33 posted on 04/23/2010 3:29:28 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (http://www.teapartyslogans.com/cgi-bin/web/index.cgi)
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To: Uncle Miltie

THANK you! I may just paint him


34 posted on 04/23/2010 3:37:09 PM PDT by maine-iac7
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To: Ben Ficklin
Back in the seventies, one of these guys wrote a book or allowed a writer to live with him, I do not recall. I do recall it being a fantastic book, it was passed around the barracks. I really enjoyed it. In 79 during the big Midwest snow storm, I was stuck in the St Louis Greyhound Station and there he was. This guy was an engineer I believe, made his own guns, he also spoke at a few universities. He was a man of few words, tried to talk to him, he did not say much. Cannot remember the title of the book, wish I could I liked to get a copy.
35 posted on 04/23/2010 3:43:36 PM PDT by OldGoatCPO
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To: Uncle Miltie

More power to this guy, but living alone, no telephone, no TV, no internet, I don’t see any books. What did he DO all day? I’d be bored stiff.


36 posted on 04/23/2010 3:53:52 PM PDT by boop ("Let's just say they'll be satisfied with LESS"... Ming the Merciless)
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To: OldGoatCPO

here’s one

http://www.amazon.com/Last-Mountain-Men-Harold-Peterson/dp/0960356665/ref=pd_sim_b_3#noop


37 posted on 04/23/2010 3:56:57 PM PDT by maine-iac7
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To: OldGoatCPO

http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=peterson&sts=t&tn=the+last+of+the+mountain+men&x=103&y=22


38 posted on 04/23/2010 4:05:30 PM PDT by panaxanax (The time has come (3-21-2010) for TEA Party Patriots to turn up the volume.)
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To: boop

Are you female?


39 posted on 04/23/2010 4:48:10 PM PDT by ansel12 (Romney-"I longed in many respects to actually be in Vietnam and be representing our country there")
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To: OldGoatCPO
I have a friend in California - a real Mountain man that homesteads way back in a wilderness area WITH his wife and kids.

A sculptor, using mainly California serpentine, he found a mountainside of it way off the beaten track and just went in and built a really great house - heated with a iron stove made from an ocean buoy - that burns huge logs.

To visit him requires going as far as you can with a 4-wheel drive then hiking 4 hours over mountain trails and streams to a meadow where he picks you up in an 8-wheel drive Italian truck and off you go to again.

They grow their own food, of course. He makes his own carving tools.

With his shoulder length blond hair, his muscled frame resulting from his rugged lifestyle - particularly carving out and hauling great chunks of stone back to his place - he looks like the Hollywood idea of a Mountain Man.

He kept losing his dogs to mountain lions - until he got a Rhodesian Ridgeback. No more problems.

He did, however, become a very successful sculptor - so was no longer financially imperiled. It was rather strange to go to an opening of one of his shows, like in Los Angeles, and see him in that setting - knowing where and how he lived.

40 posted on 04/23/2010 5:33:15 PM PDT by maine-iac7
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