Who Are the Fathers of Survivalism?

Tappan, Kearney... pioneers for sure.

Who has built their KFM? Need to build a new one; mine got messed up in storage shuffle.
 
Horace Kephart was the GRAND-father.
we had his books in our school library.
 
turkeydance said:
Horace Kephart was the GRAND-father.
we had his books in our school library.
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Thanks for that. I had to pull up his info. Very impressive.
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Horace Kephart Is Known as One of the Founding Fathers of Bushcrafting

Horace Kephart (1862-1931), famous as the “Dean of American Camping,” began his professional life focused on scholarly pursuits. At a
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The story behind the man: First-ever Horace Kephart biography explores a complex man and momentous life

Horace Kephart has been dead for 88 years, but his name and his story still pull an undercurrent through Western North Carolina. Kephart is acclaimed as the father of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, an outdoorsman gifted with an adventurous soul, and the author of such staples of regi...
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The Gear of Horace Kephart

Horace Kephart is another well respected pioneer in what has come to be known as bushcraft. His book Camping and Woodcraft has been a guide ...
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These folks had it all figured out.
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i got some studying to do if i wanna try to keep up with you dudes...
 
Dick Proenneke ?
gotta respect a man who says "yeah, i can bug out to alaska in the spring and build a cabin by fall or else die"
 
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