One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey by Richard Proenneke & Sam Keith

Author:Richard Proenneke & Sam Keith
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: WA), West, Travel, Essays & Travelogues, OR, United States, HI, CA, Pacific (AK
ISBN: 9780882409429
Publisher: Ingram Pub Services
Published: 2013-03-01T00:00:00+00:00

September 21st. I put my smoker into operation again. I kept it going all day, and while all the meat except the hindquarters cured in the smoke, I worked on the white hide and hung it on two poles to dry in the sun.

Not a pound of meat will be lost due to bullet damage. The bullet hit a whisker high behind the front shoulder. Shooting up at such a steep angle, I should have held a shade lower and would have caught the heart.

September 22nd. Smoked the hindquarters today. Salted down the sheep pelt and cleaned up what was left of the skull. The smoked meat of yesterday hung in the woodshed with a plastic covering over it. I found the spruce squirrel tugging at this plastic game bag. Away he bounced over the ground when I yelled at him, and such a fuss from his perch on a branch stub! Stamping his feet and pumping his tail and scolding as if he had more right to the meat than I did.

I hung all the sheep meat high off the ground and covered it with the poncho. I always thought this is the way I would like to do it. Butcher at the right time of the year, hang the meat in the open until it freezes, then just keep sawing off chunks as you need them until it is gone. That’s living in the wilderness first class.

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