Word: frontiersman
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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WHILE McPhee subtly leads one to gentle meditation and an appreciation of sanity in even the wildest frontiersman, McGinnis plunges into the underside of the Alaska myth, where the American Dream in its last pure expression rips rapidly across the forests and tundra in an oily fever of seedy opportunism, watching, listening, talking, poking around. He observes everything, and lets it all accumulate. He records demythologized Alaska more obnoxious and squalid than it is majestic and forbidding. Along with the peaks, glaciers, freedom and big bucks, he gives us the alcoholic cabin fever of the Arctic winter, the grimy linoleum...
Daniel F. Boone, 22, fifth-generation descendant of the legendary frontiersman, entering Army basic training: "I consider it an honor to be named Daniel Boone. You can never live under another person's name without building up your...