Word: montana
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David and Theodore Kaczynski have both put some distance between themselves and civilization. Unlike other baby boomers whose back-to-the-land impulses could be satisfied with a Neil Young album, they know what it's like to live without electricity or running water. On the 1.4 acres of Montana woodland that he bought with David in 1971, Ted spent whole winters living on dried root vegetables, some rice and flour and the snowshoe hares he tracked down with his .22-cal. rifle. In the early 1980s, David headed for the desolate Christmas Mountains of West Texas. The cabin...
...line under the postage stamp. When they used it to mark the letter in which they broke the news of his father's suicide, Ted wrote back complaining that the message didn't merit a red line. From that point he retreated even more firmly into the Montana woods, his books and himself...
After Iowa, David passed through a number of jobs. One was as a supervisor at the Addison, Illinois, factory of Foam Cutting Engineers, a company that also employed his father. For a while in 1978 one of his subordinates was Ted, who had left Montana briefly in the hope of earning some money. According to investigators, at the factory Ted began dating a female supervisor. (A fellow employee told TIME it was a single date.) After their relationship went nowhere, he responded by composing crude limericks about her and posting them around the plant. When David ordered him to stop...
...running water, David sometimes showered at a bunkhouse maintained by Terlingua Ranch. It was there that in 1983 he met Juan Sanchez, a Mexican farmhand who sometimes did maintenance work at the estates. David helped him secure a green card and urged him to write to his brother in Montana, who he suggested might be able to offer him advice on his immigration problems. That led to a seven-year correspondence. From November 1988 to November 1995, Ted wrote to Sanchez as often as eight times a year in neatly penned, grammatical Spanish. Ted wrote mostly of his poverty...
...Freemen drama confirms this point, but from another angle. Not content to live and let live in the peaceable Montana way, this band of alleged counterfeiters and tax cheats busied itself placing bounties on neighbors. No wonder the locals were set to raid the place before the FBI stepped in. In Montana, screwing the government is your affair, but no one likes a busybody...