Theodore Kaczynski kept a record. He kept it in notebooks in a ten-by-twelve cabin outside Lincoln, Montana, and the parts that mattered most he wrote in a numeric code of his own devising, so that anyone who found the notebooks would find a hermit's diary about snow, rabbits and watercress with long stretches of numbers between the entries. When agents searched the cabin in April 1996 they took the notebooks, and by May 7 the Bureau had a decoded transcription, which is the date this one carries. The coded passages are set in capitals, as the translator's note explains, and the first of them in the transcription is an account of a bomb mailed in May 1982 to a computer scientist named Patrick Fischer. "HIS SECRETARY OPENED IT."
The secretary was Janet Smith, at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, and she was the one who was hurt. That is the pattern the journal records over and over: a package addressed to someone he had chosen because of what they represented, opened by whoever happened to be there, and then a careful reading of the newspapers afterwards to find out what it had done. Of the Berkeley bomb of May 1985 he wrote that it "did well"; it was picked up by John Hauser, a twenty-six-year-old Air Force captain working on a master's degree in electrical engineering, and Kaczynski copied the witnesses' descriptions of his arm into the notebook. Hauser lost most of the use of his hand and the sight of one eye, and ended his hope of becoming an astronaut.
Three people were killed. Hugh Scrutton, who ran a computer rental store in Sacramento, picked up what looked like a block of wood with nails in it in his parking lot on December 11, 1985. Thomas Mosser, an advertising executive, opened a package in the kitchen of his house in North Caldwell, New Jersey on December 10, 1994, with his family in the house; the lab report on what was left of the wrapping is in this file, addressed to him at 15 Aspen Drive. Gilbert Murray, president of the California Forestry Association, was killed opening a parcel in his Sacramento office on April 24, 1995. Twenty-three others were injured over seventeen years.
The rest of the file is the other side of those seventeen years. There is a survey of serial bombing cases from a UNABOM conference at Quantico in May 1995, at which the Bureau, ATF, the Justice Department and the Postal Inspection Service went through every comparable case they could find, and an analyst's observation that investigators often attach meaning to details that turn out to mean nothing to the offender. There is a Postal Service description of the Eugene O'Neill stamp, because the stamps on the packages were one of the few things the bomber chose that could be studied. And at the very front there is a notice the Bureau was obliged to place in the file in 1997, after the Justice Department's Inspector General found that thirteen of its laboratory examiners had done work that would not stand up, one of them in this case.
Kaczynski speaks at length in this file, which is the first thing to know about it and which the release's own index does not say. Roughly a third of what is printed below is the Bureau's typed translation of his journals: the numeric-coded passages, which are set in capitals, and the Spanish ones, translated into English, between ordinary entries about the land around the cabin. These are his words, written for no one, and they include his own accounts of making and sending bombs and of reading about the injuries they caused. We print them because they are the center of the record and because a summary of them would soften them. Read them with that in mind.
The translation is the FBI's and the page reproduces the translator's own note on what was done: the coded text was decoded as a block, so page breaks do not line up with the notebooks, and the run-on words and misspellings of the original were corrected "in the interest of readability," so what you are reading is already a cleaned text and not a facsimile. The expression is Kaczynski's. The typing, the decoding and the rest of the file are government work.
Kaczynski is not, by the usual definitions, a serial killer, and the label is argued over. He chose his targets for what they stood for, he was never present when they died, and he is conventionally classed as a domestic terrorist. What puts him alongside the others is the method the Bureau used to find him - UNABOM is one of the defining cases of behavioral profiling - and the record he left of choosing, waiting and reading the newspapers afterward, which is the same record investigators look for in any serial case and rarely get in the offender's own hand.
The Inspector General's notice about the laboratory concerns former Special Agent Terry Rudolph, whose work the report of April 15, 1997 found had not been done "in a manner that would withstand peer review or judicial scrutiny," a failing it said was "not isolated to one case." Kaczynski pleaded guilty in January 1998 and the lab evidence was never tested at trial, so the finding did not reach his conviction. It is printed because the Bureau placed it at the top of every file its criticized examiners had touched, and this is one of them.
Of 500 pages across four releases and 58,755 words, 38,842 are printed here; the deleted-page sheet for the first release alone lists 58 pages withheld, as duplicates or under the privacy and informant exemptions, and the Bureau's deleted-page sheets are left in where they fall. The scan reads at 87 per cent and we repaired 619 misread words in cases where only one real word fitted. Capitalized words were not touched, which on this file matters twice over: they are names, and they are also the coded journal. One correction to the machine's work had to be undone. The spelling repair treats any word it has never met as a misreading, and it had never met the word stamp, so the Postal Inspection Service's account of the Eugene O'Neill and Frederick Douglass stamps on the bombs came out talking about swamps; sunny became funny, feathers became fathers and decoded became decided. Those have been checked back against the scan and restored.
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION DELETED PAGE INFORMATION SHEET
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The purpose of this memorandum is to commemorate, in all relevant case files, certain findings made by the Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General regarding forensic work performed by former Special Agent Terry Rudolph.
The Oig findings were issued in connection with a broader investigation of three units in the FBI Laboratory: the Explosives Unit, the Materials Analysis Unit, and the Chemistry Toxicology Unit.
Rudolph did not perform his work as an examiner in a manner that would withstand peer review or judicial scrutiny; and Rudolph lack of competence was not isolated to one case.
recommended that a notation regarding its findings with respect to Rudolph be placed in each case file in which Rudolph was the principal or auxiliary examiner. If the forensic work performed by Rudolph in this case is used in any way in the future, both the Oig findings and Rudolph forensic analysis should be reviewed. In addition, legal advice should be obtained as to the FBI disclosure obligation.
Synopsis: To place this document on record in the Task Force control file and to place a copy on the top serial in every investigative file containing forensic work performed by any of the thirteen Laboratory Examiners whose scientific work was criticize by the
Reference: Serial 82 Details: BE ADVISED, one or more of the Laboratory Examiners who performed scientific analysis in this investigation was eriticized in the OIG's report issued on April 15, 1997. The conducted a thorough review of allegations of wrongdoing and improper practices within certain sections of the FBI Laboratory.
It issued a report which, among other findings, was critical of the scientific work performed by thirteen individual examiners assigned to the Lab. The allegations and criticisms concerning these individuals varied greatly and in some instances is case specific.
Mark and place this communication as the Permanent Top Serial of each section of each investigative file identified for inclusion in the FBI Laboratory Review Project.
Enclosed for receiving office are copies of letters that were sent by to various Professors in 1985 and a listing of those professors in each division. Enclosed also, is a Federal Grand Jury subpoena requesting necessary data.
The UNABOM Task Force is conducting an investigation regarding a series of fourteen bombings which occurred across the country between 1978 and 1993.
These bombings have resulted in the death of one individual serious bodily injuries to others. As part of this investigation, a team of investigators from the FBI, US.
TOBACCO, AND FIREARMS is conducting a comprehensive Bureau NCAVC,
ue ee Approved: kKYR I Transmitted Per (Time) review and analysis of the backgrounds of each of the victims of these bombings in an effort to discern a nexus between them which may aid in identifying a possible suspect. To do this, important background information concerning each victim is being compiled and automated for comparison purposes.
One of these victims was Dr. JAMES MCCONNELL, formerly a professor of Psychology at the UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN. MCCONNELL was employed at the UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN from 1956 to 1986. He is now deceased.
On 11/15/85, JAMES McCONNELL, received a parcel at his home address which contained an explosives device. The return name and address on the package listed RALPH
KLOPPENBURG, Department of History, UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, Salt Lake City, 84112. The package had been mailed from Salt Lake City, on or about 11/12/85. RALPH KLOPPENBURG is a fictitious name. Attached to the outside of the package was a letter to McCONNELL signed by KLOPPENBURG requesting McCONNELL review and critique the enclosed manuscript. opened ne en icting minor injuries to McCONNELL was interviewed on several occasions.
During the course of the interviews, he advised that he had attended LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY in Baton Rouge from 1942 to 1947. McCONNELL also attended CENTENARY, TULANE, NORTHWESTERN, and HARVARD during these same years. He graduated with a Bachelors Degree majoring in Psychology in 1947. After completing his undergraduate work, he was employed as a Radio Station Announcer in New Orleans and Lake Charles, LA. In 1949, he was the Program Director for a Galveston, TX radio station and became a writer for a television station in Cincinnati, OH from 1950 to 1951.
In 1951, he was employed at his family cafe part-time basis while he pursued his graduate studies at the UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS. McCONNELL received his Master's Degree in Psychology in 1954. He received a Fulbright Scholarship to attend the UNIVERSITY OF OSLO in Oslo, Norway from 1954 to 1955. He returned to the UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS in 1955 and received his Ph.D in Psychology in 1956. His advisory at
In 1956, McCONNELL became an Instructor in the Department of Psychology at the UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN. He became a Professor in 1963 and was employed in this position until his retirement. From 1963 through 1980, McCONNELL had a research appointment with the Mental Health Research Institute my at the UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN. During this research, he was the Director of the Planarian Research Group. This research dealt with operant conditioning of flatworms. From 1973 to 1986, he was also a lecturer for Management Training Programs
SHIELD. McCONNELL was a Consulting Editor for HOLT, RINEHART WINSTON., New York City, NY, from 1977 to 1985. He was on the Science Year Editorial Advisory Board, WORLD BOOK, INC., Chicago, IL, from 1983 to 1987.
On 10/11/85, MCCONNELL sent a form letter to 142 professors across the country using stationary which listed his business and residence addresses. In this letter, he requested professional input and feedback regarding the fifth edition of his book, UNDERSTANDING HUMAN BEHAVIOR. A month later, MCCONNELL received an addressed to his home accompanied with a letter. The content of the suspect letter was similar to the letter that McCONNELL mailed on 10/11/85.
Dr. McCONNELL had only lived at this address since the fall of 1983.
A review of the 142 letters revealed 100 universities had professors employed at their respective institution which received the form letter. This analysis revealed that 32 sales representative for HOLT, RINEHART WINSTON were mentioned in these letters by Or. MCCONNELL as contacts for these professors with the publishing firm. An attachment is enclosed with the names of these individuals and their marketing territory.
A review of the fifth edition of UNDERSTANDING HUMAN BEHAVIOR revealed that Dr. McCONNELL had also acknowledged the enthusiastic reception given by HOLT, RINEHART WINSTON marketing and salespeople. These individuals were listed in the prologue section of UNDERSTANDING HUMAN BEHAVIOR for their contributions in the success of previous edition of the text. An attachment is enclosed with the names of these individuals.
2. Determine if HOLT, RINEHART WINSTON has a listing of each professor at these institutions which utilized this text for classroom instruction.
4. Determine if a similar marketing" technique was utilized by the publisher for McCONNELLs prior edition of UNDERSTANDING HUMAN BEHAVIOR for the years 1974, 1977, 1980 and 1983. If yes, obtain the names and locations of those professors for the previously requested years as well as copies of the prior marketing letters (if available) to compare the contents of those letters with the 1985 McCONNELL letter, the methodology to establish such a list and the name of the individual who compiled the list for the previous years. If a similar marketing technique was not utilized prior to 1985 determine why not" and how was the text marketed.
6. Obtain from the publisher any information regarding a meeting in which Dr. McCONNELL made a presentation and was attended by more than 100 HOLT, RINEHART WINSTON sales representative in Toronto in August, 1985.
7. Obtain a complete listing of sales representative who marketed UNDERSTANDING HUMAN BEHAVIOR for the years 1977 through 1986. The information requested should be name, SSAN, hire date, date of termination,
On or about October 11, 1985, Professor McCONNELL mailed marketing letters to professors throughout the United States. An analysis of the available letters revealed 32 sales representative for the publishing firm of HOLT, RINEHART WINSTON were responsible for the marketing of this text. The list of these sales representative and their assigned territories is provided below.
THIS EXAMINATION IS NEEDED TO A SUSPECT RESOLUTION TAVESTIGATIUN FOR THE THESE
THE HAS RECENTLY NOTED RECEIPT NUMEROUS LATENT EINGERERINT REPORTS WITH VARIGUS FILE NUMBERS PREVIGUSLY USED For THE UNAGOm CASE, FUR INFORMATION, THE IS CARRYING UNABN UNDER UNIVERSAL CASE FILE NUMBER, WHEN LATENT FINGERPSINT REPORTS ARE RECEIVED AT The THEY ARE FILED TN VARICUS SUB-FILES SUSPECT AND INCIDENT TYPS.
(CID) priority. His comment was that they continue to get whatever they ask for, so help them the best we can.
To 4/7/94 discussion regarding status Ioading of Victimology by b7c Pocatello into R-Base. She has no knowledge of status and had no contact with San Francisco since January left SF. She recommended calling From 4/7/94 ee He is unaware of status of calling
He recommended From 4/7/94 Message from Message that he will call first Friday, From 4/8/94 request that and a Rapid Start Representative attend a meeting in San Francisco on 4/19 22/94. During this meeting the Task Force is going to cover all previous aspects of the investigation, to include all information that has been collected. Then by using Rapid Start data, Victimology source data, and Victimology Interview data create a plan to use the and the SUN SYBASE Server to analyze the millions of records already automated. Teletype will be sent on 4/8/94 or 4/11/94 requesting above.
Re: UNABOM Automation Support To 4/8/94 discussed details of request. He will brief with SC Kahoe on 4/8/94.
request an will brief SC Teitsworth and try to determine who will represent Rapid Start.
employee who has contract much of the automation support bsBIC for the analytical support for UNABOM regarding enhancement to Victimology SYBASE Data Base).
info. Training Deputy Director. inspection DETAILS: The specifics have been provided in the reference part of this memo and in the teletype which San Francisco is sending FBIHQ. The known data currently to be analyzed is the Rapid Start events, leads, 19,000 text documents, 7,000,000 Victimology source documents, the R-Base Victimology interview data, and approximately eighty systems of records yet to be received from subpoenas served during the last six months. The SUN Sparc 10 and the are being used now and should continue to be the analytical platform used by the UNABOM task force.
Conduct appropriate examinations on enclosed handwritten letter and envelope, to include handwriting, fingerprint, DNA, and other examination for comparison against evidence previously developed in this case.
Enclosed for are copies of referenced recommendations re lead number SF 335, along with a single floppy disk containing electronic copy of instant airtel.
For information of the Laboratory, the envelope was received and opened at the with the letter blockstamped 9/20/93. It is not known how many New Haven employees have handled this letter prior to 9/22/93.
Xerox copies of this were previously furnished to and Chicago in New Have dated 9/22/93. By referenced telcall, 10/12/93, SA advised lead SF 335 had been assigned to this matter. pie New Haven regret the delay in forwarding letter to Laboratory Division. Delay necessitated by temporary misplacement of the letter.
Envelope, Hand printed letter, The listed specimens are further described in a separate report.
The latent fingerprints developed on were compared, insofar as comparable areas permit, with the latent fingerprints previously reported in this matter, but no Up enue testyou was affected. JBIP-SFIObA The specimens are enclosed for New Haven.
A floppy his of this report is enclosed for San San pFranc Oo as Yikes MAILR his Report Is Furnished For OffiriatUee-Onty Via are
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGASON UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF
Envelope not postmarked bearing the hand printed address Mr. Milt Ahlerich Federal Bureau of Investigation New Haven, Connecticut Sheet of paper bearing the hand printed letter beginning Mr. Ahlerich, After reading the account Compare the latent developed in captioned case with latent developed in the following cases: ce: ant FRANCI 204) FBI, fogWg Capt be Sere DF 2
am Latent Fingerprint Section is requested to compare the enclosed photocopy of fingerprints of suspect JACOB SCHACHTER against fingerprint evidence previously developd in this case.
Me Enclosed for the Latent Fingerprint Section are two photocopies of the fingerprints of suspect JACOB SCHACHTER, date of birth: July 18, 1926, Social Security Account Number 054-24-9270. The photocopies of fingerprints were obtained from the Military Branch, Federal Records Center, St. Louis, Maryland.)
ss fe bad fe Hl Bureau (2) Mi iE San Francisco baer aaAS Died Per wes Approved: A Transmitted Per ss (Number) (Time) Be 149 106264 FD-36 (Rev. 11-17-88) seat FBI Borencteeters
Enclosed for San Frani i copy of the FD-302 interviews of and the original and one copy insect.
It is the opinion of the interviewing that is probably not the UNABOM subject for the following (1). onty ears of age and the UNABOM subject is ae ed as being 5 years of age. Mo when the first incid of captioned matter occurred, would have been only ears of age.
(2). Accordin to The i ing nonetheless believe that it is possible that may have been used to somehow further captioned matter.
inte rview was dedicated upon information revealed that
DURING A SEVENTEEN YEAR PERIOD BEGINNING ON 5/25/78, THE UNKNOWN UNABOM SUBJECT HAS MAILED OR PLACED SIXTEEN IMPROVISED EXPLOSIVE DEVICES WHICH HAVE BEEN RESPONSIBLE FOR THREE DEATHS AND INJURIES TO TWENTY-THREE PEOPLE LOCATED THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES. NINE OF THESE DEVICES WERE MATLED
THROUGH THE MAIL, AND SEVEN OF THESE DEVICES WERE PLACED ON-SITE. ONE EXPLODED IN THE CARGO HOLD OF AN AIRPLANE WHILE IN FLIGHT AND, HAD IT FUNCTIONED PROPERLY, COULD HAVE RESULTED IN A MAJOR AIR DISASTER. SINCE MAILING WHICH CAUSED THE DEATH OF GILBERT MURRAY IN SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, ON 4/24/95, THE UNABOMER HAS MAILED FOUR THREATENING LETTERS, POSTMARKED OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, AND DATED 4/20/95; IN ADDITION TO THE FOLLOWING MAILINGS, ALL OF WHICH WERE POSTMARKED AT SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, ON A THREATENING LETTER TO THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE IN WHICH HE THREATENED TO BLOW UP AN AIRPLANE OUT OF LOS ANGELES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT; FOUR PACKAGES WHICH CONTAINED COPIES OF A FIFTY-SIX PAGE MANUSCRIPT ADDRESSED TO THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE WASHINGTON POST, PENTHOUSE MAGAZINE,
RECOVERED) TO SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MAGAZINE. IN THE LETTERS WHICH ACCOMPANIED THE MANUSCRIPTS TO THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE WASHINGTON POST, AND PENTHOUSE MAGAZINE, THE UNABOMER ESTABLISHED A TIMETABLE REQUIRING PUBLICATION, OR A STATEMENT OF AN INTENT TO PUBLISH HIS MANUSCRIPT, BY THE NEW YORK TIMES OR THE WASHINGTON POST WITHIN THREE MONTHS FROM THE DATE HIS LETTER WAS POSTMARKED (BY 9/24/95). IN HIS LETTER TO THE NEW YORK TIMES POSTMARKED
4/20/95, THE UNABOMER OFFERED TO DESIST FROM TERRORISM IF HIS MANUSCRIPT WAS PUBLISHED. THE UNABOMER DEFINED TERRORISM, AS ACTIONS INTENDED TO CAUSE INJURY OR DEATH TO HUMAN BEINGS IT IS NOTED, THAT EVEN IF THE UNABOMER'S MANUSCRIPT IS PUBLISHED, HE RESERVES THE RIGHT TO CONTINUE TO ENGAGE IN ACTS OF SABOTAGE WHICH HE DEFINED AS ACTIONS INTENDED TO DESTROY PROPERTY WITHOUT INJURING HUMAN BEINGS." INTENSIVE INVESTIGATION SINCE THESE EVENTS HAS DETERMINED THAT THE UNABOMER IS BELIEVED TO BE LOCATED IN THE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA AREA. INVESTIGATION IS BEING INTENSIFIED TO IDENTIFY, LOCATE, AND APPREHEND THE UNABOMER BEFORE HE STRIKES AGAIN.
IN VIEW OF THE EXIGENT CIRCUMSTANCES AND THE URGENCY TO EXPEDITE ALL INVESTIGATION TO IDENTIFY AND APPREHEND THE UNABOMER, FBIHQ IS REQUESTING THAT ALL FIELD OFFICES IMMEDIATELY ESTABLISH THE UNABOM INVESTIGATION AS A TOP INVESTIGATIVE PRIORITY, TO CONTINUE THROUGH 10/1/95. DURING THAT TIME PERIOD, ALL FIELD OFFICES ARE REQUESTED TO COMPLETE ALL UNABOM LEADS WITHIN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS OF RECEIPT, IF AT ALL POSSIBLE.
SAN FRANCISCO IS REQUESTED TO IMMEDIATELY CANCEL ALL PREVIOUSLY SCHEDULED TRAINING AND IN-SERVICES UNTIL 10/1/95,
UNLESS EXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCES EXIST. SAN FRANCISCO SHOULD CONSIDER CANCELLING ANNUAL LEAVE FOR ALL PERSONNEL AND DEVOTING ALL AVAILABLE SAN FRANCISCO RESOURCES TO THE UNABOM MATTER THROUGH 10/1/95. DURING THIS TIME PERIOD, SHOULD THE SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION IDENTIFY A NEED FOR USE OF OVERTIME FOR SUPPORT PERSONNEL, SAN FRANCISCO IS REQUESTED TO EXPEDITIOUSLY FORWARD RECOMMENDATIONS AND REQUESTS FOR OVERTIME ENHANCEMENTS TO FBIHQ.
IT IS NOTED THAT EXTENSIVE ONGOING INVESTIGATION BY THE CHICAGO DIVISION HAS SIGNIFICANTLY CONTRIBUTED TO THIS MATTER.
CHICAGO IS REQUESTED TO INTENSIFY THIS EFFORT BY IMMEDIATELY ASSIGNING AT LEAST TEN OR MORE ADDITIONAL SPECIAL AGENTS OVER AND ABOVE THOSE ALREADY ASSIGNED, TO WORK EXCLUSIVELY ON THE UNABOM MATTER THROUGH 10/1/95.
SINCE THE DEATH OF THE MOST RECENT VICTIM, THE SACRAMENTO DIVISION'S EXCELLENT INVESTIGATION HAS CONTRIBUTED SIGNIFICANTLY TO THIS MATTER. SACRAMENTO IS REQUESTED TO IMMEDIATELY ASSIGN ADDITIONAL RESOURCES AT LEAST FOUR AND ONE SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT) TO WORK EXCLUSIVELY ON THE UNABOM
INVESTIGATION CONDUCTED BY THE SALT LAKE CITY DIVISION HAS
ALSO MADE MAJOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO THIS INVESTIGATIVE EFFORT, AND SALT LAKE CITY IS REQUESTED TO IMMEDIATELY INCREASE ITS TASK FORCE BY FIVE TO WORK EXCLUSIVELY ON THIS MATTER FULL TIME
BASED UPON RECENT UNABOM EVENTS, FBIHQ IS DESIGNATING THE IDENTIFICATION, LOCATION, AND APPREHENSION OF THE UNABOMER AS A TOP INVESTIGATIVE PRIORITY IN ORDER TO STOP THE UNABOMER BEFORE HE STRIKES AGAIN. IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT ALL FIELD OFFICES MAKE EVERY EFFORT TO ASSIST IN THIS MATTER.
THEREFORE, IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT FBI SF CONTACT THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, WASHINGTON, DC. TO FURTHER PURSUE THIS MATTER. IT IS REQUESTED THAT SF APPRISE AND UPDATE LEGAT ATHENS, ACCORDINGLY.
REFERENCE SF TELETYPE, 1/19/96, LEAD 2549: ON 1/22/96, UPON RECEIPT FROM SF, SUCH WILL BE EXPEDITIOUSLY FORWARDED
Ca Enclosed for information and reference, subject to restriction stamped thereon, are copies of self-explanatory documents from files.
Personnel, (Civilian) (Military) Branch, Veterans Administration Records Processing Center, SLMO, advised on no record on subject or could be located on basis of information furnished. In event additional identifying or descriptive data becomes available, another lead for review of the (civilian-or military) records should be submitted.
Fite was not located at (Civilian) (Military) Branch, SLMO, and should be located at Lead: Office record Jochted your division. Handle review. For reference and assiatanee in handling lead, copies of pertinent serial are enciosed. ib (3) Bureau
SOMEONE GN THE UNASOM TASK FORCE THEY CAN CONTACT ss OR INSPECTOR-IN-CHARGE BRUCE GEBHARDT, AT 553- 7641. LEGAT BRUSSELS SHOULD NOTE THAT AT THIS TINE THE MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE IS IN THE PROCESS oF QEING RELINQUISHED TG THE SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION. IN THAT REGARD, east Day IN THE SAN FRANCISCU DIVISION IS MARCH 175 AND INSPECTOR IN-CHARGE GEBHARDT'S TENTATIVE DEPARTURE DATE IS ABOUT APRIL 8, 1994,
THIS REPLACES. REFERENCED BALTIMORE DATED JULY 265 1993. REFERENCED BATEL SHOULD DESTROYED BY THE BUREAU AND RECEIVING OFFICES. FOR INFORMATION OF BALTIMORE HAS ONE OUTSTANDING LEAD IN CAPTIONED CASE. THE GUTSTANDING LEAD INVOLVES WALK WHO ADVISE) RESULTS OF THE TELCALL LEAD SET ON JUNE 255 19935 FROM
OBTAINED FROM THE LETTER SENT TO THE NEW YORK TIMES ON JUNE 249 19935 WAS PROVIDED BY ACSIMILE TI.FBIHQ GN JUNE 255 1993.
BALTIMORE SOURCE FOUR ADVISED THE NINE DIGIT NUMBER IS BALTIMORE WILL PROVIDE ADDITIONAL INFO FROM INVESTIGATION TO ON A TIMELY BASIS ONCE RESULTS ARE OBTAINED UNDER AD
(4) WHERE HE WAS STATIONED DURING. HIS MILITARY CAREER INCLUDE DATES ANO LOCATIONS OF LEAVE TAKEN)3 (5) RESIDENCES (PRIOR TO MILITARY SERVICE);
ANY QUESTIONS REGARDING THESE LEADS CAN BE DIRECTED TO SA
SUBJECT: UNABOMS MAJOR. CASE 753 OF: RE SACRAMENTO TELETYPE DIRECTOR, 5/25/94. RECORDS CHECK CONDUCTED AT CaLifurwIAa STATE UNIVERSITY WERE NEVE STUDENTS NOR EMPLOYED AT CSyS.
4-8428,: (DECEASED) and files located at the bE MEAUHA NA AKOK paiie ois, Mo., and reviewed on 5/ 6/ 94 by
Enclosed for San Francisco is one copy of a Seve aicanee hotceeaen of Attached to the referenced memorandum was an America Most Wanted call form, dated 11/26/93. The completed form was a result of the television program America Most Wanted of 11/23/93, wherein the UNABOM case was featured, and viewers were requested to call with any pertinent art icular caller 2/- Bureau San Francisco (1) id A 2 Salt Lake City
advised that 106204 provided his date and his Social Security Account Number as Having been initi ised that this interview involved the UNABOM matter as completely cooperative and candid in his answers. Con, his travel, he advised that he has lived in he has bates traveled once to vacation was advised of the universities and locations across the United States involved in this UNABOM matter and denied any connections with any of them. He advised the last time in California was Jana with the exception of nd previously mentioned, has not traveled outside the stat advised he has never been involved in explosives nor has he ever been in trouble asa result of anythi advised go the best of his Be knowledge, he worked the entire month of June, 1993, and cannot reca aking any vacation during that period. He welcomed an examination Oa ed ee time sheets for that period to verify his whereabouts.
ee puzzled as to why he might be a bE suspect in is matter but none the less was totally cooperative during this contact.
Based on the interview of physical appearance which does not drawing of the UNABOM suspect and the time records for indicating that he was in during the pertinent time periods of June 17 and no further investigation is being conducted in this matter.
Re New Orleans airtel to Director, FBI, dated 4/5/94 pertaining to lead number interview of Enclosed for Springfield are four enclosures consisting of three copies of referenced airtel and a airtel from San Francisco to Director, FBI, dated 3/28/94.
For information of the Bureau and receiving offices, enclosure was inadvertently sent to Chicago.
Reference San Francisco airtel to the Bureau, San Francisco is to note that bE Francisco is requested to handle the information set forth in the report very delicately.
Enclosed for San Francisco and for FBIHQ two copies, of b7D Legat Ottawa will b7D
2.) Two copies of Illinois State Police Division of Forensic b7C Servic ification Crime Jacket Number 3.) Original and copy of an FD-302, dated 6/10/94 interview of Investigator of the Morton Grove Police Departmen b7c 4.) Original and copy of 6/10/94, interview of Sergean
CAPTIONED INVESTIGATION HAS BEEN DESIGNATED AS A BUREAU SPECIAL AND ALL LEADS ARE TO BE REGARDED AS PRIORITY MATTERS AND EXPEDITIOUSLY COMPLETEDs WITH FULL DOCUMENTATION FORWARDED TO THE UNABOM TASK FORCE IN A TIMELY FASHION. REQUEST OF THE BUREAU: (1) THE IDENTIFICATION DIVISIONs LATENT FINGERPRINT SECTIONs IS REQUESTED TO COMPARE. THE FINGERPRINTS OF WITH LATENT PRINTS DEVELOPED IN THE UNABOM INVESTIGATION. IN THE MILITARY AND SHOULD HAVE FINGERPRINTS ON RECORD AT IDENTIFICATION OFVISTON, CHICAGO WILL ALSO FQRWARD TO FBIHO CINGERPRINTS DF PAGE. THREE DE FBRISF 0016 UNCLAS THE FBI LABORATORY, NOCUMENT SECTION IS REQUESTED TO COMPARE THE TYPED APPLICATION SUBMITTED TO THE POSTAL SERVICE FOR THE RENTAL OF POST. OFFICE WITH KNOWN TYPEWRITER EVIDENCE DEVELOPEDIN THE INVESTIGATION. THE ORIGINAL APPLICATION WILL BE FIQWARDED TD FBIHO BY THE SAN FRANCISCO. (3) THE FBI LABORATORY, DOCUMENT SECTION, IS REQUESTED TO COMPARE THE SIGNATURE({S) AND HANDWRITING OF on b7c HANDWRITTEN POST OFFICE
BOXES WITH THE INDENTED WRITING DEVELOPED IN THE UNABON INVESTIGATION; SPECIFICALLY THE INDENTED WRITING FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES LETTERy CALL NATHAN Ry 7 PM." ALL RECEIVING OFFICES ARE REQUESTED TO TREAT THIS MATTER WITH EXTREME SENSITIVITY, TG CONDUCT ONLY THE INVESTIGATION REQUESTED THE AND TO EXERCISE CAUTIGN AND DISCRETION IN IMPLEMENTING INVESTIGATIVE STEPS OUTLINED THE UNABOM TASK FORCE APPRECIATES THE INVESTIGATION CONDUCTED TO DATE BY CHICAGO DIVISION IN THE UNASDM MATTER,
FOR THE: INFORMATION OF CHICAGD DIVISION, THE HAS
CODES HAVE BEEN ATTACHED TO THE BOX) TN JULYs 1989, AND THE PO. CONTINUES ACTIVE TO THIS DATE.
CoNNecTING HIM WITH. AN ADDRESS IN JANUARY, 1984, UNDER THE NAME THE FOLLOWING ADDITIONAL INFORMATION HAS BEEN DEVELOPED.
IS OF POTENTIAL SIGNIFICANCE. AS DISCUSSED IN THE JUNE 1994, UNABOM DAILY SUMMARY, THE UNABDM SUBJECT HAVE SELECTED TARGETS BASED UPON HIS AFFILIATION WITH THE AERONAUTICAL INDUSTRY.
DURING THE 1977-1980 TIME FRAME THERE WERE THREE UNABOM INCIDENTS THE DEVICE PLACED AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY ON MAY 9, 19793 THE DEVICE THAT EXPLODED ON BDARD AMERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHT 444 ON NOVEMBER 155 1979; AND THE DEVICE MAILED TO THE PRESIDENTOF UNITED ATRLINES PERCY WOOD, ON SUNE 105 1930.
THE MAY 99 19799 DEVICE PLACED AT NORTHWESTERN UNTVERSITY WAS IN AN AREA IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TQ THE UNITED AIRLINES NORTHWEST TRANSPORTATION CENTER. THE NOVEMBER 145 1979, DEVICE THAT EXPLODED ON SOARD AMERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHT 444 HAD INDICATING SOME KNOWLEDGE OF CABIN PRESSURIZATION
AT SPECIFIC ALTITUDES. OURING THE 1979 TO 1980 TIME FRANEs THE FORMER PRESIDENT DF UNITED AIRLINES, PERCY WOOD, GAVE A SPEECH AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY. THIS WAS A TIME IN WHICH THERE WERE A NUMBER OF PROBLEMS PLAGUING THE AIRLINE INDUSTRY.
THERE WAS A PILOT STRIKE AND ACTION BEING TAKEN WITH RESPECT TO PELOTSs PARTICULARLY WORKING FOR UNITED AIRLINES. PERCY WOOD WAS IN THE NEWS EXTENSIVELY DURING THIS TIME FRAME. HE WAS ALSO INTHE NEWS WITH RESPECT TO UNITED AIRLINES NEW AIRPLANE MAINTENANCE PROGRAM, WHICH WGOO wAS CREDITED WITH ESTABLISHING. WOOD HAD PREVIDUSLY BEEN EMPLOYED BY 8DEING CORPORATION. DURING THE 1982-1985 TIME FRAME THERE AGAIN WERE THREE UNABOM ENCIDENTS THE DEVICE PLACED IN ROOM 411 AT CORY HALL (MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT) ON JULY 29 19825 UNIVERSITY OF CALIF OQNTAs BERKELEY THE DEVICE PLACED IN ROOM 264 GF cry HALL (LOMPUTER SCIENCE) AT ON MAY 155 19853 AND THE Device MALLED FROM DAKLANDs CALIFORNIA TO BOEING AIRCRAFT
AUBURN WASHINGTON MAY (8) 19855 AND NOT OPENED UNTIL APPROXIMATELY JUNE 13, 1985. DURING THIS TIME FRAME, waS ENGAGED IN A CONTRACT WITH BOEING AIRCRAFT IN AUBURN WASHINGTON. THe CONTRACT CONCERNED COMPUTER AIDED
MANUFACTURING AND DESIGN. THE JUNE 139 1985 DEVICE was MATLED FROM A FICTITIOUS ADORESS WET BURG TOOL AND DYEs 16 HEGENBURGER COURT, GAKLAND, CALIFORNIA. IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT THIS DEVICE MAILED TO THE BOEING FABRICATION FACILITY IN AUBURN, WASHINGTON. THE AREA IN THE VICINITY OF HEGENBURGER COURT IN DAKLAND AN AREA KNOWN FOR MANUFACTURING AND FABRICATION, THE PARTICULAR BOEING ADDRESS THIS DEVICE WAS MAILED TO INVOLVED THE FABRICATION ASPECT OF THE BOEING CONTRACT WITH BERKELEY. 30EFING ALSO HAND CONTRACTS WITH UNIVERSITY OF UTAH DURING THIS TIME.
ON JUNE 105 19945. THE QUERIED THE ZYINDEX DATABASE FUR ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION of ee NUMERGUS REFERENCES WERE LOCATED FOR PERSUNS vane a a VARTOUS MIGDLE NAMES AND INITIALS. GF INTERESTs HOWEVER, A RESUME FROM DATED MAY
A IN THE RESUME PROVIDES HIS ADDRESS AS IN RESPONSE TO THESE RESUMES WERE OSTAINED BY THE UNITED STATES POSTAL
TEXT CONTINUES: SALT LAKE DIVISION OFTERMINED THAT THE HOLDER FOR WAS AN INDIVIQUAL NAMED b7C THE POST OFFICE CARD EXECUTED FOR THE POST OFFICE CONTAINED A NOTATION, PROBABLY MADE BY A POSTAL SERVICE EMPLOYEEs ef
DRIVER'S CICENSE NO VEHICLES WERE FOUND REGISTERED TA CALIFORNIA.
THE CURRENTLY PREPARING A PLACEMENT PROFILE ON ss AN EFFORT TO FULLY EVALUATE HIS HHEREABOUTS SURING en EACH UNABOM EVENT. THE FOLLOWING LEADS ARE REING SET FORTH TO GATHER ADOITLONAL INFORMATION FOR THE PROFILE AND SHOULD HANDLES EACH RECEIVING OFEICE WITH THE UTMOST DISCR TION.
(2) CONTACT UNITED AIRLINES CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS 3 DETERMINE IF THeyY HAVE ANY RECORD OF ANY COMMUNICATIONS FROM
REQUESTED TO CONDUCT DISCREET INVESTIGATION TO DETERMINE THE iron IDENTIFICATION OF THE OWNER, NO INTERVIEW SHOULD CONDUCTED AT THIS TIME. LOS ANGELES OIVISTON SHOULO CUORDINATE WITH THE REGARUGING FUTURE STEPS IN REGARDS TO THIS AQDRESS
LOUISVILLE DIVISION, AT LOUISVILLE. KENTUCKY: bE CONTACT i8M AT LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY AND ANY AND ALL RECORDS RELATED EMPLOYMENT
avof THIS Pede BOX WAS OPENED IN JULY 1989, AND APPARENTLY IS CURRENTLY ACTIVE. rcarios
THIS POST OFFICE BOX SHOULD BE OBTAINED AND, THROUGH COORDINATION WITH THE FORWARD IT TO THE F3l LABORATORY OOCUMENT SECTION FOR EXAMINATION.
(2) MATL COVER SHOULD BE INITIATED wITH RESPECT TG
ABOVE POST OFFICE AND RESULTS REPORTED ON TIMELY BASTS TO THE
(3) DISCREET INVESTIGATION SHOULDBE CONDUCTED TO IDENTIFY THE CUSRENT RESIDENCE AND OWNER OF THE BUILDING af aes THIS ADDRESS APPEARS AS TALIFORNTA DRIVER'S LICENSE (4) DETERMINE THE PROXIMITY OF RENTECH COMPUTER STORE, CITE OF INCIDENT NUMBER ll.
SALT LAKE CITY OIVISION, AT SALT LAKE CITY UTAH? (1) UTAH DRIVER'S. LICENSE INFORMATIONs INCLUDING ALL VEHICLES REGISTERED AND PHOTOS FOR ALL OF or; frstes IN THIS TELETYPE TO DETERMINE TF ANY GF THESE INDIVIDUALS ARE IDENTICAL TO a ne TS THE THPIC OF THIS TELETYPE.
SAN FRANCISCO DIVISIGN, AT SAN FRANCISCO? CALIFORNIA. (1) OBTAIN EX-PARTE DRDER FOR EMPLOYMENT RECORDS b7c (2) OBTAIN A SUBPGENAs WHEN APPROPRIATE INFORMATION IS
ALL RESPONSES Ta Lekos GUT IN THIS COMMUNICATIGN ARE
TO PROVIDED ELECTRONIC MEDIUM IN ADDITION TG HARD COPY WITH THE EXCEPTION 36 TELETYPES. INCLUDE A SINGLE FLOPPY DISK WITH ELECTRONIC COPIES OF ALL COMMUNICATIONS AUTHOSED
THE MAJOR CASE PRINTS AND PALM PRINTS OF WERE SENTOTO, THE LABORATORY AS ENCLOSURES TO AIRTEL DATED DECEMBER 35 1993. 9
INQUIRIES BY THE UNABOM. TASK FORCE GF THE LABORATORY REVEALED THERE WAS RECORO OF THE RECE THIS AIRTEL WITH ACCOMPANYING PRINTS. THE LABARATORY TS REQUESTED TO MAKE ONAL INQUIRIES TO LOCATE THIS AIRTEL WITH ACCOMPANYING PRINTS. ONCE THE PRINTS AE LOCATED COMPARE THEM TO THE UNIDENTIFIED LATENT PRINTS. IN THE UNABOM SERIES AND ADVISE SAN FRANCISCO OF THE RESULTS.
file located at the Sbetiank (Military) Branch, St.Louis, Mo., and reviewed on 6/2794 pre by Personnel, Military Branch, St. Louis, Mo., advised on that service record for subject or was destroyed by fire at this center.
OFile has not yet been located at A special search is under way, and file will be reviewed promptly when located.
This material afro records of tsl.7sea mo Personnel Records Spatpepuris to be used for refer: not recopy fe or dissemi.
terial copied from records of Nationg blne ponsoams to be used for re Do not recopy ak ee or dissem form outside FD-36 (Rev. 11-17-88) oe i. Si
NEVER BEEN EMPLOYED BY BHEING. SINCE 1985 BOEING HAS HAD AN
LOS ANGELES WAS REQUESTED 10 contactL Sd AND ee
DETERMINE HIS: KNOWLEDGE OF, AND SUSPECT THROUGH OBSERVATION, DETERMINED THAT 3 REPORT OF FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION LABORATORY DIVISION
No watermarks, invented writings, or other physical characteristics which might indicate their immediate sources were observed during examinations of 074, and
Appropriate photographs have been made for future comparison purposes.
The toolmarks present on the (North Caldwell device) wire end were compared with the toolmarks present on the wire ends in specimens (Tiburon device), and (Yale device). A significant portion of the toolmark on each wire is not present to form a conclusion. It is this examiners opinion that the same tool could have formed the toolmarks with different portions of the tools cutting edge.
The manufacturer toolmarks present on the and could have originated from the same machine; however, sufficient toolmarks could not be associated to form a conclusion.
The Critical Incident Response Group's Investigative Support Unit would make the following observations regarding opinions of clinical psychologists consulted by
Regarding the UNABOM subject's use of Eugene O'Neill postage Eugene O'Neill, a playwright who drew upon the tragedy of his own life, is said to have functioned as social critic and moral guide for American society. The UNABOM subject may view himself in a parallel role. O'Neill is quoted as saying, In all my plays sin is punished and redemption takes place."
2 San Francisco 2 Bureau Newark 1 CIRG San Francisco 106204) There are several interesting points about O'Neill, his personality, his works, etc., which might play some role in the UNABOM subject's behavior. For example, device was concealed in the book Ice Brothers; one of O'Neill's most noted plays was The Iceman Cometh.
O'Neill was responsible for introducing innovative uses of symbolism to the American theater in the early
Some critics complained that his symbolism was obscure and was lost on the audience. There is little question that the UNABOM subject also engages in much symbolism. Unfortunately, unlike most serial violent offenders with a message, the UNABOM subject has not communicated his message and the meaning of his symbolism is lost.
DOI Assistant te the Attorney General RICHARD SCRUGGS United States Attorney Chicago United States Attorney Salt Lake
Typewriter impressions on the shipping label were prepared using the same typewriter used to prepare the typewriter impressions on numerous items of evidence previously submitted in this case including the incidents at Tiburon, CA. on June 22, 1993, New Haven, Connecticut on June 24, 1993, and Ann Arbor, Michigan on November 15, 1985.
Bight of the 14 devices had postage stamps affixed in addition to the Times letter). A total of seven different postage stamps were utilized.
Two of the stamps featured the US. flag one had the flag over the US. capital), three of the stamps were part of the prominent Americas series DERTCK DOUGLASS LUCY STONE), one stamp was part of the Americgria series Rush ip And Candleholder, aka, Americas light eled by truth and reason), and the final stamp was a part of the performing arts and artists series (WILL ROGERS).
Five of the stamps were used on more than one device.
The flag with Olympic Rings was used on the two devices plus the NY Times letter; the flag over the capital was used on two devices; the Rush Lamp and Candleholder was used on four devices;
the EUGENE O'NEILL was used on three devices, the FREDERICK DOUGLASS was used on two devices; and WILL ROGERS and LUCY STONE were each used on one device.
The EUGENE stamp (sheet version) was removed from sale on 10/31/79 and was used on devices on 5/25/78, 11/14/79 and 5/5/82. The other stamps were available for sale at the time they were utilized.
This stamp was issued on July 2, 1979 in San Francisco, California as a part of the Americana series of stamps. The issue date was changed from duly 31, 1979 to July 2, 1979 so that it could be issued on the same day as the Susan Anthony coin.
The stamp was designed by JAMES SCHLEYER of Burke, Virginia, who has designed several other Americana Series issues for the postal services. Following the lighting device thema of other SCHLEYER designs, the vignette depict a stylized combination rush lamp and candlehelder of the type used by early settlers of the United Stamps.
The stamp design was modeled by JACK RUTHER and the engravers were GARY CHACONAS and JAMES GOODBODY lettering and All are with the
The image area size of a single stamp is inches or 19,05 22.09 millimeter. The overall size of a single stamp, from perforated side to perforated side, is inches or 21.33 25.14 millimeter. There were 100 stamps per pane.
This stamp was withdrawn from philatelic sale on February 28, 1987.
May 5, 1982; Fischer device mailed from Provo, Utah to State College, Pannsylvania three
May 25, Crist-NWU device found at University of Illinois ten
This stamp was first issued on October 16, 1967 at New London, Connecticut, as part of the Prominent American series.
This stamp was also issued as a coil type stamp on January 12, 1978 in Hempstead, New York. It was in coil form to be utilized in self service postal units for mailing parcel.
O'NEILL is the first American playwright to be honored with a United States stamp. His plays received four Pulitzer Prizes and the top world award, the Nobel Prize for Literature.
ee member of the Postmaster General's Citizens! Stamp Advisory Committee, designed the stamp. It is jpased on a photograph of O'NEILL that appeared in the books section of the New York Times, September 22, 1957.
The portrait captures O'NEILL in a characteristic brooding mood, his right hand curled against his face. It was printed in dark purple.
Across the top of the vertical stamp in sans serif capital "EUGENE O'NEILL." In the same typestyle is at the bottom.
The vertical inscription also are sans serif but in purple of a lighter value. Vertical left is One Dollar";
EUGENE O'NEILL's first produced play was staged in 1916 in an abandoned fish house on a wharf and was viewed by a small audience that sat uncomfortable on benches. It was a play about the sea, so the Atlantic Ocean, not scenery was the backdrop.
He is widely regarded as America's greatest playwright and ranks with SHAW as the most frequently produced of this century.
With one exception, the comedy, "Ah, Wilderness," O'NEILL wrote tragedy. The playwright's personal life was repeatedly scared by tragedy. He once wrote: Sure, write about happiness if ever happen to meet up with that luxury DEC-13+1994 19:42 FROM To P.O7 In early manhood, O'NEILL was a merchants seaman, a gold prospector, a warehouse laborer and a newspaper reporter on a New London, Connecticut newspaper.
His one act plays produced hy the Provincetown Players were judged by many critics as the best abbreviated drama ever written in this country. They brought him no money, but eventually attracted Broadway producers.
O'NEILL was born Octeher 16, 1888 in New York City. He died at Boston, Massachusetts, November 27, 1955.
dune 10, 1980; Wood device mailed from Chicago to Lake Forest. November 14, 1979; American Flight 444, This stamp was issued February 14, 1967 in Washington,
which is believed to have been his birth date in 1817.
The Douglass stamp is in the "Prominent Americans" series of regular stamps. It was designed by WALTER DUBOIS RICHARDS, of New Canaan, Connecticu who makes his debut as a stamp designed. RICHARDS, a graduate of the Cleveland School of Art, is represented in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum, in New York City and the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Born FREDERICK AUGUSTUS WASHINGTON BAILEY, a slave on Colonel BD LLOYD's Tuckahoe, Maryland plantation, he fled to New Bedford, Massachusetts wherehe changed his name to DOUGLASS, to avoid detection. He took this name in admiration for the character in Six WALTER "Lady of the Lake," He was aided in his self-education by Abolitionist WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON, although their views on how to obtain civil rights for Negroes differed. GARRISON advocate withdrawals.
DEC-13-1994 19:44 FROM es fe The stamps were placed at a right angle te and flush with the top edge of the address label. The stamps are sideways with the left side of the stamp down.
May 8,.1985 Boeing Device Of the People, By the People, For the People (flag over the capital) two America's light fueled by Truth and Reason eight The America's light stamps are in two rows of four stamps. Six of the stamps are still connected and two have been separated. The two stamps are connected and are in line with the two rows of stampa and to the left side of the rows.
May 5, 1982 Fischer Device EUGENE O'NEILL three a The three stamps are above the address label in normal position. Two stamps are still connected, the third has been separated from its sheet. June 10, 1980 Parey Wood Device America's light fueled by Truth and Reason one FREDERICK DOUGLASS one WILL ROGERS one
The three stamps are side by side. The WILL ROGERS stamp is turned on its right side and is the first stamp on the left followed by the FREDERICK DOUGLASS and then the America's light stamp. The ROGERS stamp is rectangular and with is the same dimension as the height of the other two.
May Sf EUGENE O'NEILL ten The stamps are in two rows of five stamps. Each stamp has been individually separated and applied.
The Information Resources Division is requested to compile the enclosures into a computer formal compatible with RAPID START, to be forwarded to Newark and San Francisco.
Enclosed for the are photocopies of the Eugene Neil Society membership for the years 1979 through 1981, and 1983 through 1992. No membership uffolk University, aes Boston, MA.
Referenced airtel provided the with the most recent membership for the Eugene Neil Society.
Officers, pro to serve until December 1979) President: of Dramatic Art i University of California, Berkeley 94720 402 Ballantine Hall ac University of Indiana, Bloomington 47401 Secretary: ee of English University of Rhode Island, Kingston 02881 fd Dept. of English feld, Rl. 02917 Board of Directors, pro dominated at the meeting, but acceptance not as yet received) Provincetown Playhouse Box 477, Provincetown, Massachusetts 02657 tbeyes Pram Madison, Wisconsin 53705 ie Hodh LANA oduen 3706 Curator, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center Great Neck Road, Waterford, Connecticut 06385 1000 cedar Michigan Ann Arbor, tend Suffolk University, Boston, Massachusetts 02114 ALTERNATE: me Royal Dramatic Theater Stockholm, Sweden Offic pecTony 17
This directory reflects all membership through the 1981 calendar year. A supplemental directory of new members will be issued during the summer of 1982.
The Investigative Support Unit Critical Incident Support Group has reviewed each of the questions posed by reairtel, and the following provides a response to most issues raised. However, it is not possible to answer, with specificity, several of the questions posed, in view of the absence of physical evidence or evidence of the offenders behavior necessary for interpretation or analysis.
Speculation as to possible reasons for the UNABOM subject behavior could be counter-productive to the investigation and negatively impact on an expeditious identification and apprehension of the subject.
assumed that was his intent. It should also be considered that the changes modification the UNABOM subject has made to his devices over the years is likely his way of customizing his devices for a specific victim based on his personal feelings toward that victim.
QUESTION Eugene ONeill Stamps The Eugene O'Neill stamp has importance and meaning to the UNABOM subject. However, within the realm of possibilities, no one can say with certainty, what this significance or importance might be. Without any forensic evidence or specific behavior on which to base an analysis, drawing a specific connection between Eugene ONeills anarchist views and the UNABOM subject goals would be speculative at this point. The only person who knows the reason or reasons these stamps are important is the UNABOM subject, himself.
It is not uncommon in a serial investigation for investigators to be perplexed by some aspect of the case or the offenders behavior. However, there are not always answers to these puzzles, until such time as the offender is interviewed and provides the explanation. In some cases, puzzles to which investigators attach some significance or special meaning, in fact, were determined to have no particular meaning to the offender.
QUESTION Survey of Serial Bombing Cases As is aware, ASAC Terchie, Acting and SAL participated in the 5/11/95, UNABOM conference at Quantico, facilitated by personnel at the request of San Francisco. Also in attendance were representative from FBI Headquarters; the Department of Justice; Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms; and Postal Inspection Service. Different style serial bombing cases were the subject of this meeting and several cases were exhaustively discussed throughout the day. All significant material was disseminate at that time to personnel, and everyone was encouraged to take notes. Therefore, unless advises that providing a written summary of this survey is critical to the ongoing investigation, one will not be provided at this time.
Volume 9 PAGE 1 TRANSLATOR'S NOTE: Capitalized text in English (bold) and Spanish was written in numeric code in the original document. The coded text was decoded as a block and therefore the page breaks in the translation may not coincide with the page breaks in the original.
Also, in the original coded document, words are often run-on and misspelled. In the interest of readability, these two characteristics of the original are not reflected in this document. Some words in the original coded text are spelled such as, enuf," and thru." These phonetic spellings have been left as is.
APRIL 6 Series Bia June 22, 1980. Here I am driving through Canada, hoping I can dig up a place to buy a plot of land to live on that will suit me. Reasons why I want to leave Montana in spite of my love for that country have been described elsewhere.
A trip like this is excruciatingly miserable for me, and I am forcing myself to take this trip only because I look upon it as my last chance to get away from civilization to. the extent that I want to. The most miserable aspect of the trip is trying to find a place to stay each night.
It would be OK if I had a lot of money and could stay in a motel whenever convenient. But I can afford to do that only infrequently, as a last resort. So I have to find a place to camp each night if at all PAGE 1 APRIL 7 possible, not in a regular campground, because of the expense, because I hate those places, and because I dislike being conspicuous from the fact that I have neither tent nor camper. So I s/o drive around these little dirt roads trying to find a place to pull my car off where I will be secluded enough so that I won't be questioned by the police as has happened to me sometimes in the past). Sometimes it is difficult or impossible. Another thing that makes the trip i is the fact that the car car, which I an using) has ing trouble, and I've been having to get it fixed more than once. It wouldn't be so bad if I knew there sic area where I can CT s/o indicates illegible crossed-out word(s) in the original text.
find what I want. The main problem is to avoid JET PLANES.
I've not had success trying to get. information about what areas are free of THEM.
Thus I have to drive around blind, so to speak, and investigate different places personally. I've had to be cautious about making enquiries concerning what areas are free of COMMERCIAL AIR ROUTES because I have COMMITTED CRIMES
June 29, 1980. My brother has a weak, flaccid personality, and I have no respect for him. His ideology of "Art" is based on
and is quite imitative, in spite of the fact that like most who latch onto that ideology) he claims to abhor limitation. On the other hand, I have a real affection for him. Thus, my feelings toward him tend to waver between affection and contempt.
III 261: The principal business of the Russian sylvan spirits is to guard the forest.
They do not allow people to whistle or shout there IV 177: A forest spirit resembling the Russian LSiy is the Eastern Lapps' Miehts-hozjin the Master of the forest") When anyone shouts, singsor makes a noise in the forest, he becomes offended, and bewilders the culprit so that he cannot find his way out of the forest. The Master of the forest" loves silence above all.
of a certain New Guinea tribe, Margaret Mead writes In Growing up in New Guinea): Among two men of the same general rsonalii traits in modern society mine) one may believe in the Trinity and the Doctrine of Original Sin, the other be a convinced agnostic 1; one may believe in free trade, state's rights, local option; the other in tariffs, big davies, national legislation on social questions; one may be interested in collecting prints of early New York, the other in collecting butterflies; one may have his house done in Queen Anne furniture, the other have a house with furniture assembled from half a dozen sources;
one an ear trained to 1 But by definition an agnostic is a person. who is fined one way or the b7c other.
But all these differences are, in my view, insignificant. All the differences listed are only differences in choice of entertainment they are of no more significance than the choice a New Guinea child makes when he decides to play this game or the other game.
tinder normal s/o circumstances, none of the choices listed has any practical consequences. The only reason 2 Exceptions. The person who believes he may go to Hell for having the wrong rel beliefs will of course consider religious beliefs to have practical consequences, but those who are not this footnote continues at bottom of page 4, APRIL PAGE 4
people collect butterflies or listen to music or read literature is to enjoy the emotional stimuli that these activities provide, or to keep themselves from getting bored, or to get status from the snobappeal of these a activities. Except for the last, these are the same motives as those which induced children to play games. But because they have been pious will agree that religion is tional needs. Of course, a man's a difference in his-chiidrens the personalities his children develop. But (usually) this is not the man's motive for holding his religious beliefs; the difference in his children's personalities is a chance consequence. A choice of sport my also have important chance consequences: a footnote continues at bottom of page 5, APRIL PAGE 5
trained to do so, people put such activities up on a pedestal and worship them. The adulation that our culture gives to Art, Science, and Philosophy was developed largely by the economically secure classes. For these people, getting the necessities of life was not enough to keep them occupied, so many of them acquired an exaggerated kid might be crippled for Life in a football accident. Yet we do not on that account say that being a football player or instead of a baschall player difference from an agnostic, but in that case it is the personality difference that is bashes not the difference in re!
interest in Art and Philosophy and all that crap, s/o and they developed the ideology that makes Art and Philosophy terribly Important and vastly superior to mere" practical affairs) because this enabled them to feel that their activities were purposeful and significant. Thus, Art and Philosophy are regarded as Important primarily because it gratifies She also says same range of personality differences occurs in Guinea as in US. Differences of political opinion in millions of people do have practical consequences, but the political opinion of one individual is of no consequence whatever. Still, the idea that political and religious opinions are games" is either incorrect, or needs qualification, in the case of some indif individuals. But we can state with only minor qualifications that the differences cited above in Tone Line of unintelligible text here footnote continues at bottom of page 6, ARPIL certain persons' emotional needs to regard them as important. This does deserve some qualifications. For instance, it may be that reading
(say) Proust does to a limited extent help up us s/o to gain insight into human nature. But this isn't the real motive of those who read literature.
If they were primarily interested in collecting, house-furnishing, art, and Literature deal only with games and entertainment--in a rather broad sense, of course. end of footnote PAGE 6
understanding human nature, they would mostly spend their free time reading books on psychology and would read literature fiction only as a rather minor adjunct to their study. Also, the whole body of literature of a nation may play an important role in the development of that nation, but an individual who reads or writes in his spare time does not thereby influence his nation; his motive is as stated above.
A man who reads Proust is presumably more intelligent and thoughtful than one who reads Donald Duck, because he has chosen a far more complex and subtle form of entertainment. But still 3 So I assume. Haven't read Proust myself.
Thus, Maggie Mead's remarks show only that our society provides a far greater variety and complexity of games and entertainment than a New Guinea village. I suggest that this very great development of games and entertainment (masquerading as serious purpose) in our society indicates that the majority of people in our society do not find an adequate sense of purpose in their work, they have bad feelings inside them which force them to keep constantly occupied and entertained so as to escape from their own thoughts.
Anyhow, the main point I wanted to make is that the points of diversity listed by Maggie Mead are ones that I would consider trivia and superficial.
friviak and "superficial" here Date of transcription 5/7/96 The following is: a decoded transcription of. notebooks (Al) and
MAY ABOUT 1982 I SENT A BOMB TO A COMPUTER EXPERT NAMED PATRICK FISVER. HIS SECRETARY OPENED IT. ONE NEWSPAPER SAID SHE WAS IN HOSPITAL? IN GOOD CONDITION? WITH ARM AND CHEST CUTS. OTHER NEWSPAPER SAID BOMB DROVE FRAGMENTS OFWOOD INTO HER FLESH. BUT NO INDICATION THAT SHE WAS PERMANENTLY DISABLED. FRUSTRATING THAT I CANT SEEM TO MAK LETHAL BOMB.USED SHOTGUN) POWDER IN THIS LAST HOPING IT WOULD DO BETTER THAN RIFLE POWDER.NEXT I MUST TRY ANOTHER GASOLINE BOMB, DIFFERENT DESIGN.THOUGH GASOLINE BOMB I TRIED.
LAST FALL DID NOT GO OFF. REVENGE ATTEMPTS HAVE BEEN GOBBLING MUCH TIME, IMPEDING OTHER WORK.BUT I MUST SUCCEED, MUST GET REVENGE. NOT LONG AFTER FOREGOING, I THINK IN JUNE OR JULY, I WENT TO OF, CALIFORNIA BERKELEY AND PLACED IN COMPUTER SCIENCE BUILDING A BOMB CONSISTING OF A PIPEBOMB IN GALLON CAN OF GASOLINE. ACCORDING TO NEWSPAPER, VICE CHAIRMAN OF COMPUTER DEPT. PICKED IT UP. HE WAS CONSIDERED TO BE OUT OF DANGER OF LOSING ANY FINGERS", BUT WOULD NEED APPARENTLY PIPE BOMB WENT OFF BUT DID NOT IGNITE GASOLINE. I DONT UNDERSTAND IT. FRUSTRATED. TRAVELING EXPENSES FOR RAIDS SUCH AS THE FOREGOING ARE VERY HARD ON MY SLENDER.
FINANCIAL RESOURCES. LOST SUMMER DYNAMITE BLAST WAS BOOMING ALL OVER THE HILLS. OCCASIONALLY AUDIBLE AT MY CABIN, MUCH MORE AUDIBLE A COUPLE OF MILES OF HERE. EXXON ve CONDUCTING SEISMIC EXPT.ORATION FOR OIL. COUPLE OF HELICOPTERS FLYING ALL OVER THE HIILLS,. LOWER A THING WITH DYNAMITE ON CABLE, MAKE BLAST ON GROUND, INSTRUMENTS MEASURE VIBRATIONS.
EAST OF CRATER MIN. PROVED HARDER THAN I THOUGHT, BECAUSE HELICOPTERS ALWAYS IN MOTION, NEVER KNOW WHERE THEY WILL GO NEXT, TALL TREES IN WAY OF SHOT ONLY ONCE HAD BE HALF A CHANCE. 2 QUICK SHOTS, ROUGHLY ATMED,, AS COPTER CROSSED SPACE BETWEEN 2 TREES. MISSED BOTH. WHEN I GOT BACK TO CAMP I PARTLY FROM FRUSTRATION AT MISSING, BUT MOSTLY GRIEF ABOUT AT WHAT IS HAPPENING TO THE COUNTRY. IT IS SO BEAUTIFUL. BUT IF THEY FIND OIL, DISASTER. EVEN WHOF NOT FIND OIL, THE BLASTS AND HELICOPTERS RUIN IT. DESECRATION. WHERE CAN I GO NOW FOR PEACE AND QUIET? TRUE, IF NOT FIND OIL, EXXON WILL EVENTUALLY LEAVE HERE. BUT IF IT ISNT ONE THING ITS ANOTHER. SUCH AS ONE OF MY FAVORITE PLACES BEING LOGGED OFF, SPEAING OF WHICH, SUMMER OF 1981 I BEGAN HEARING DISAGREABLE NOISES OF MACHINERY, SOMETIMES SURPRISINGLY LOUD, DEPENDING APPARENTLY ON METEOROLOICAL CONDITIONS. OFTEN BUT OTHERWISE BEAUTIFUL, SILENT MORNING WAS RUINED FOR ME WHEN THESE NOISES STARTED UP. THE FOLLOWING WINTER MANY OTHERWISE PLEASANT EXCURSIONS WERE RUINED FOR ME BY THE MOANING AND HOWLING OF THOSE IRON MONSTERS, AUDIBLE BUT OFTEN LOUDLY) FOR MILES OVER THE HILLS. MADE UP MY MIND TO GET REVENGE, BUT IT WAS DIFFICULT TO DETERMINE JUST WHERE NOISE WAS COMING FROM. HAD TO WAIT FOR SUMMER AWYWAY, SINCE MY TRACKS COULD EASILY BE FOLLOWED IN SNOW. BUT NOISE SEEMED TO STOP IN SPRING. THEN I BEGAN HEARING IT AGAIN IN LATE SUMMER,1982. I THINK IT WAS IN SEPTEMBER THAT I TOOK BLANKET, PISTOL, 1 DAYS sa RATIONS AND FOLLOWED NOISE TO FIND IT CAME FROM A LOGGING OPERATION IN WILLOW CREEK DRAINAGE, LOGGING OFF ONE OF MY FAVORITE WILD SPOTS. THEIR METHOD WAS HORRIBLE. AS FAR AS I COULD WITHOUT GOING CLOSE ENOUGH TO RISK BEING SEEN, THEY WERE JUST PUSHING TREES OVER WITH BULLDOZERS INSTEAD OF CUTTING WITH SAWS. WHEN THEY LEFT FOR THE DAY I WENT IN AND FOUND THE WHOLE SURFACE OF THE GROUND STRIPPED RIGHT OFF LEAVING UGLY TANGLE OF LIMBS, UPROOTED TRUNKS, AND DIRT. THEY LEFT A 5 GALLON CAN OF OIL SITTING ON THEIR MACHINE THAT THEY USE TO, PICKUP LOGS AND LOAD THEM ON TRUCK. I POURE THE OILD OVER THE MACHINES ENGINE AND SET FIRE TO IT. I BET IT COST OVER 1000 BUCKS TO FIX IT. SPENT PLEASANT NIGHT SLEEPING OUT ON TOP OF THE AND CAME HOME LEISURELY IN THE MORNING. I FELT SO GOOD AFTER HAVING DONE THIS. THOUGH A MITE UNEASY OVER THE RISK OF BEING SUSPECTED. FORGOT TO MENTION, ON TRIP WHERE I SHOT AT HELICOPTER, I CHOPPED DOWN WOODEN POWER LINE POLE, HOGUM CREEK AREA. FEW YEARS AGO SOME FUCKERS BUILT A VACATION HOUSE JUST ACROSS STEMPLE PASS ROAD. MOTORCYCLE AND SNOWMOBILE FIENDS. THEY WOULD BUZZ UP AND DOWN ROAD PAST MY CABIN ON MOST WEEKENDS, SUMM AND ER WINTER. LAST SUMMER SEEMED THEY WERE WORSE THAN USUAL. SOMET MADE ITIMESA 3 DAY WEEKEND. WHEN THEY WERE NOT BUZZING UP THIS ROAD I WOULD HEAR THOSE CYCLES GROWLING AND GROWLING OVER BY THEIR PLACE, DAY LONG. WAS GETTING ABSOLUTELY INTOLERABLE. MY HEART GOING BAD. TAKES EXERCISE OK,: BUT ANY EMOTIONAL STRESS, ANGER ABOVE ALL, MAKES IT BEAT IREGULARLY. IT GOT SO THAT THAT CONSTANT CYCLE NOISE WAS CHOKING ME WITH ANGER, HEART GOING WILD. RISKY TO oe COMMIT CRIME SO CLOSE TO HOME, BUT I FIGURED IF I DID NOT 4 GET THOSE GUYS, THE ANGER WOULD. LITERALLY ME ANYWAY. i SO ONE NIGHT IN FALL I SNEAKED OVER THERE, THOUGH THEY WERE HOME, AND STOLE THEIR CHAINSAW, BURIED IT IN A SWAMP. THAT WAS NOT ENOUGH, SO COUPLE WEEKS LATER WHEN THEY HAD LEFT THE PLACE, I CHOPPED MY WAY INTO THEIR HOUSE, SMASHED UP INTERIOR PRETTY THOROUGHLY. IT WAS A REAL LUXURY PLACE.
THEY ALSO HAD A MOBILE HOME THERE. I BROKE INTO THAT TOO, FOUND SILVER PAINTED MOTORCYCLE INSIDE, SMASHED IT UP i WITH THEIR OWN AX. THEY HAD 4 SNOWMOBILES SITTING OUTSIDE: I THOROUGHLY SMASHED ENGINES OF THOSE WITH THE AX. THINK THEY WERE THE ONES I CUT" CYCLE TRAIL AT ROCHESTER, SINCE SILVER PAINTED CYCLE IS WNUSUAL. WEEK OR SO LATER, COPS CAME UP HERE AND. ASKED ME IF I HAD SEEN ANYONE FOOLING AROUND WITH ANY BUILDINGS AROUND HERE. ALSO ASKED IF I HAD HAD ANY PROBLEMS WITH MOTORCYCLES. THIS LAST QUESTION
SUGGESTS THAT THE TRUTH CROSSED THEIR MINDS. BUT PROBABLY THEY: DID NOT SERIOUSLY SUSPECT ME, OTHERWISE THEIR QUESTIONING WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN SO THIS WINTER TO 1983) VERY FEW SNOWMOBILES HAVE COME BY. I SUPPOSE EITHER THOSE FUCKERS HAVE NOT GOT MACHINES. FIXED YET, OR HAVE REALIZE THAT THER IS. SOMEONE WHO WIIzL NOT LET THEM GET AWAY WITH TERRORIZING THE AREA. WHO SAYS CRIME DOESNT PAY? I FEEL VERY GOOD ABOUT THIS. I AM ALSO PLEASED THAT I WAS SO COOL AND COLLECTED IN ANSWERING COPS QUESTIONS. DEC 29,1979. IN SOME OF MY NOTES I MENTIONED A PLAN FOR REVENGE ON SOCIETY. PLAN WAS TO BI-OW UP AIRLINER IN FLIGHT. LATE SUMMER AND EARLY AUTUMN I CONST-RUCTED DEVICE. MUCH EXPENSE, BECAUSE HAD TO GO TO GR.FALLS TO BUY MATERIALS, INCLUDING BAROMETER AND MANY BOXES CARTRIDGES FOR THE POWDER. I PUT MORE THAN A QUART OF SMOKELESS POWDER IN A CAN, RIGGED BAROMETER SO DEVICE WOULD EXPLODE AT 2000FT. OR CONCEIVABLY AS HIGR AS 3500FT. DUE TO VARIATION OF ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE. LATE OCT. MAILED PACKAGE FROM CHICAGO PRIORITY MAIL SO IT WOULD GO BY AIR. UNFORTUNATELY PLANE NOT DESTROYED, BOMB TOO WEAK. NEWSPAPER SAID WAS LOW POWER DEVICE". SURPRISED ME. IN ORIGINAL AS I WROTE IT IN 1989, THERE FOLLOWED SPECULATIONS WHIY BOMB WEAK. NOW KNOW WHY. SMOKELESS POWDER IS DEFLOGRATING NOT DETONATING EXPLOSIVE, AND CONTAINER TOO EVEN TO FULLY UEILIZE ITS DEFLAGRATING POTENTIAL) SEEMS THAT IGGER SYSTEM NOT TOO RELIABLE. ACCORDING TO CHI. TRIBUNE, a BOMB WENT OFF AS PLANE APPROACHED WASHINGTON. ACCORDING TO SUN TIMES, PASSENGERS AIN BOMB WENT OFF ABOUT HALF WAY TO WASHINGTON. SHOULD HAVE GONE OFF LONG BEFORE. SET FOR 2000 OR UP TO 3500FT. ACCORDING TO INFO I GOT IN 25000 TO 40000FT. AND CABINS PRESSURIZED AT ABOUT 8000FT. POSSIBE.E EXPLANATIONS DEFECTIVE BAROMETER.
BEFORE MAKING UP PACKAGE BUT I HAVE REASON TO SUSPECT LIGHT TOUCH OF BAROMETER NEEDLE ON CONTACT NOT: ABSOLUTELY RELIABLE IN TRANSMITTING CURRENT. I WILL TRY AGAIN IF CAN GET BETTER EXPLOSIVE. BOMO DID NOT ACCOMPLISH MUCH. PROBABLY DESTROYED SOME MAIL. PAPERS SAID IT WAS WITH MAIL SACKS AND THERE WAS SMOZ.DERING FIRE. NO DAMAGE TO PLANE. AT LEAST IT GAVE THEM A GOOD SCARE. MUCH THICK SMOKE CAME INTO PASSENGER SPACE, PLANE ILANDED AT AIRPORT OTHER THAN ITS DESTINATION BECAUSE OF THIS. TRIBUNE SAID NO PANIC. BUT SUN TIMES SAID THEY DROPPED OXYGEN INHALATORS TO PASSENGERS BECAUSE OF SMOKE AND PASSENGERS DID NOT KNOW HOW TO USE THEM AND SOMEWERE JUMPING UP AND DOWN AND SCREAMING FOR THE POOR STEWARDESS, AND AS PASSENGERS IAME OUT OF PLANE SOOME WERE EMBRACING EACH OTHER, PRESUMABLY IN RELIEF. THE PAPERS SAID FBI INVESTIGATING INCIDENT. FBI SUCK MY COCK. SO I CAME BACK TO. MONTO EARLY DECEMBER, NOW WORK ON OTHER PLANS. JUNE 1,1985. SUCCESS AT LAST AFTER MANY FAILURES REPORTED IN THESE NOTES. TOOK ME YEAR AND A HALF OF INTENSIVE EFFORT, LARGELY NEGLECTING OTHER WORK TO DEVELOP EFFECTIVE TYPE BOMB. 4.45 PARTS AMMONIUM NITRATE ER) TO 1 PART EXTREMELY FINE PYWDERED ALUMINUM MIXURE NOT CAKED BUT LEFT IN POWDER FORM, IGNITED IN ORDINARY IRON WATER PIPE WITH METAL PLUGS IN ENDS STRONG ENOUGH TO WITHSTAND ROUGHLY SAME PRESSURE AS WHAT WALLS OF PIPE WILL WITHSTAND. SIMPLE ENOUGH BUT I FOLLOWED SOME FALE LEADS BEFORE TRYING THIS ONE. NOTE DIFFICULTIES I FACED.
FOR OBVOUS REASONS CANT ORDER CHEMICALS FROM-SUPPLY HOUSE, MUST MAKE THEM OR EXTRACT THEM FROM READILY AVAILABLE MATERIALS. NO VEHICLE TO TRANSPORT STUF, DIFFICULT ACCESS TO LIBRARIES, VERY LIMITED EQUIPMENT, HAVE: BUILD OWN BALANCE, OTHER MONEY RELATED PROBLEMS. MAY 8 I PLANTED A SMALI BOMB LESS THAN 2 IN THE COMPUTER DEPT. AT BERKELEY. THIS IS DEVICE NO.2, IN MY NOTEBOOKS. AT SAME TIME I MAILED A LARGER BOMB DEVICE NO.1 TO BOEING CORP., AUBURN, WA.
OUTCOME OF BORING BOMB UNKNOWN. BERKELEY BOMB DID WELL SIZE. IT WAS SPRUNG BY AIRFORCE PILOT, 26YRSOLD, NAME WORKING ON MASTERS IN ELECTRICAL ENG. HE PROBABLY HAVE BEEN KILLED IF SO POSITIONED RELATIVE TO BOMB AS TO TAKE THE FRAGMENTS IN HIS BODY. AS IT WERE, MAINLY HIS RIGHT ARM WAS HIT.
WITNESSES SAID,"WHOLE ARM WAS EXPLODED, BLOOD OVER THE PLACE. ONE NEWSPAPER SATD ARM WAS MANGLED". ANOTHER SAID IT WAS SHATTERED" AND THAT HE WOULD NEVER RECOVER USE OF ARM AND HAHD. ALSO THERE WAS DAMAGE TO ONE EYE. ONE THAT SATD THE SMALL COMPUTER LAB WAS DESTROYED". THIS. IS IMPROBABLE.
OTHER PAPER SAID "MODERATE DAMAGE" TO VARIOUS ITEMS OF COMPUTER EQUIPMENT. PROBABLY MOST OF THE DAMAGE TO ARM AND EQUIPT. WAS DUE TO FRAGMENTS, NOT SHIOCKWAVE. I WAS RELIEVED TO READ WHAT KIND OF GUY SPRANG THE TRAP. I HAD WORRIED ABOUT POSSIBILITY THAT SOME YOUNG KID, UNDERGRAD, NOT EVEN COMP MAJOR MIGHT GET If. BUT THIS GUY TYPICAL MEMBER OF THE TECHNICIAN CLASS.
MIGHT EVEN BE ONE OF GUYS THAT HAS: FLOWN THOSE FUCKING JETS OVER MY HOME. THIS GIVIZS GREAT RELIEF TO MY CHOKING, FRUSTRATED ANGER AND SENSE OF IMPO'ENCE AGAINST THE SYSTEM. AT SAME TIME, MUST ADMIT I FEEL BADLY ABOUT HAVING CRIPPLED THIS MANS ARM. IT HAS BEEN BOTHERING ME ME A GOOD DEAL. THIS IS EMBARRASSING BECAUSE WHILE MY FEELINGS ARE PKRTLY FROM PITY, I AM SURE THEY COME LARGELY FROM THE TRAINING, PROPAGANDA, BRAINWASHING WE GET, CONDITIONING US TO BE SCARED BY THE IDEA OF DOING CERTAIN THINGS. IT IS SHAMEFUL TO BE UNDER THE SWAY OF THIS BRAINWASHING. BUT DO NOW GET THE IDEA THAT I REGRET WHAT I DID. RELIEF OF FRUSTRATED ANGER OUTWEIGH SUN COMFORTABLE CONSCIENCE. I WOULD DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN.
SO MANY FAILURES WITH FIREBLE INEFFECTIVE BOMBS WAS DRIVING ME.
DESPERATE WITH FRUSTRAT-ION. HAVE TO GET REVENGE FOR ALL THE WILD COUNTRY BEING FUCKED UP STEM. LATER FURTHER SEARCH OF NEWSPAPERS ee WAS SEVERED OR NEARLY SEVERED". TIPS OF 3 ny OFF: USE OF ARM WI BE PERMANENTLY TO WHAT DEGREE NOT KNOWN. OF 2 KIDS. i HE WAS WORK-ING TOWARD PHD, CONTRARY TO ER THAT SAID MASTERS. HE WAS AFRAID HIS DREAM" WAS RUINED. DREAM WAS TO BE ASTRONAUT. IGMAGINE A GROWN MAN WHOSE DREAM IS TO BE AN ASTRONAUT. I AM NO LONGER BOTHERED BY HAVING CRIPPLED THIS GUY, PARTLY BECAUSE I JUST GO TO VERIT WITH TIME, PARTLY BECAUSE HIS ASPIRATION FOR SO IGNOBLE. SEARCHED OTHER NEWSPAPERS. FOUND NO REFERENCE TO BOEING BOMB. SEEMS INEXPLICABLE IT WAS DESIGNED AND BUILT WITH SU DOWN OF ARE THAT MALFUNCTION SEEMS HIGHLY, IMPROBABLE. LATER. RECENTLY I CAMPED IN A PARADISE LIKE GLACIAL CIRQUE. AT EVENING, BEAUTIFUL SINGING OF BIRDS WAS RUINED BY THE OBSCENE ROAR OF JET PLANES. THEN I LAUGHED AT THE IDEA OF HAVING ANY COMPUNCTION ABOUT CRIPPLING AN AIRPLANE PILOT.
EXPERIMENT 100. MID NOVEMBER 1985 I SENT BOMB IN MCCONNELL, BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION RESEARCHER AT UNIV. OF JAMES MICHIGAN. ONLY MINOR INJURIES TO MCCONNLLS ASSISTANT.
DEFLAGRATED, DID NOT DETONATE. MUST BE EITHER PIPE WAS A LITTLE WEAK OR LOADING DENSITY OF EXPLOSIVO A SHADE TOO HIGH AT FATLURE. EXPERIMENT 97. DEC. 11,.1985 I PLANTED BOMB DISGUISED TO LOOK LIKE SCRAP OF LUMBER BEHIND RENTECH COMPUTE STORE IN SACRAMENTO. ACCORDING TO SAN FRANCISIO EXAMINER, DEC.20, THE OPERATOR" OWNER? MANAGER?) OF THE STORE WAS KILLED, BLOWN TO BITS", ON DEC.12. EXCELLENT. HUMANE WAY TO ELIMINATE SOMEBODY.
RATHER FLATTERING. DEC. 11 I MAILED LETTER TO SF. EXAMINER IN NAME OF, CALLING ITSELF THE FREEDOC CLUB, CLAIMING CREDIT b7C FOR THE) BOMBING AND ANNOUNCING ITSELF AS AN ANTI TERRORIST ORGANIZATION. BUT THE IN ARTICLE IN THE EXAMINER DESCRIBED MY SERIES OF BOMBINGS AND STATED THAT NO GROUAND HAD CLAIMED CREDIT FOR, THEM.UP TO DEC.22, NO MENTION IN EXAMINER OF MY LETTER. LETTER NOT YET ARRIVED?
SEEMS STRANGE. AFTER THIS LATEST RAID I SEARCHED LA. TIMES THROUGH DEC 13 AND SOME OTHER PAPERS THROUGH DEC 14 FOUND NO MENTION OF BOMBING. I. FEARED SOMETHING HAD GONE WRONG, AND SINCE TO MAKE BUT SINCE 97 TURNED OUT SO WELL, I WILL
are value-judgements, but the assertions that I made about why some people worship Art and Philosophy are statements of a factual character.)
I am not taking any stand as to whether or not here there is more diversity on significant points what I would consider significant]) in our society than in New Guinea I am merely steering at the importance that Maggie Mead ascribes by to the particular points of diversity that she listed.
Maggie Mead only stayed a few months with those people. She claims that was enough, but one wonders how well she could have really got to know them in that length of time. Ft Her opinion of their comparative uniformity may be a case of all coons look alike to me". Or maybe not. I don't claim to know. Of course it is
very probable that there is more diversity in our society if you take people from widely different backgrounds say a ghetto nigger and a-prefers an upper middle class type) than what ordinarily occurs between two individuals in a New Guinea village. But it's not so clear if you restrict attention to a particular class in our society say upper-middle-class-bus
Aug 18, 1980: IN JUNE NINETEEN EIGHTY, I SENT A BOMB TO PA. WOOD, PSES. PRES. OF UNITED AIR LINES. ACCORDING TO NEWSPAPERS
HE WAS HOSPITALIZED WITH CUTS AND BURNS AND HAD SURGERY FOR REMOVAL OF FRAGMENTS. POST OFFICE OFFERED FIVE THOUSAND BUCKS REWARD FOR IDENTIFICATION OF CULPRIT. FBI SAID BOMB HAD ENUF POWDER TO KILL, BUT FAULTY WEAKENED IT CAUSE
CULPRIT LEFT SOMETHING LOOSE". THIS FALSE, THO MY DESIGN MAY HAVE BEEN POOR DUE TO IGNORANCE OF THE TECHNOLOGY.
THE DETONATOR DID ALL I DESIGNED IT TO DO.
IT IGNITED THE POWDER. I KNOW FOR CERTAIN THERE WAS NOTHING LOOSE IN THE EXPLOSIVE UNIT ITSELF, CAUSE THE ENDS OF THE PIPE
WERE STOPPED WITH WOODEN PLUGS FASTENED WITH EPOXY AND FOR EACH PLUG TWO NAILS PASSING THRU PLUG AND BOTH SIDES OF PIPE. THERE WOULD BE NOTHING ELSE TO GET LOOSE THAT COULD WEAKEN EXPLOSION.
OF POWDER. THEY WERE PARTLY WRONG ABOUT TYPE OF SWITCH USED, JUDGING FROM NEWSPAPER.
Sept. 15, 1980. Shortly after getting back to Montana after spending the greater part of a year working in the Chicago area, I reported in my notes that I no longer had the powerful desire for women that had troubled me while I was living among people. That was correct, and I am still untroubled by any strong sexual desire. Furthermore, I now look with a certain amount of: disgust not only on the desire for sexual love that I experienced while at PAGE 10
Perhaps those feelings were partly due rief infatuation with BE that Bitch. Be that as it Te may, i is better to have cool, detached feelings toward people.
Stronger feelings do have their pleasures, but they tendto be they infringe on one's autonomy. While having those feelings I looked back with a kind of nostalgia to the psychological autonomy and (so to. speak) purity that I'd had in the mountains. Now, back in relative solitude, I am somewhat repelled by the memory of my social feelings.
CRIMES REPORTED ELSEWHERE IN MY NOTES I FEEL BETTER. I AM STILL PLENTY
ANGRY, you understand, but the difference is that I AM
OR IN WHICH I AM THREATENED WITH PUNISHMENT FROM SOME SUPERNATURAL SOURCE. SUCH AS THE DEVIL. BUT THESE DON'T OCCUR OFTEN YOU ENUF TO BE A PROBLEM. I AM DEFINITELY GLAD.
CHAINSAWS but it was so faint that I dismissed it as imaginary. However, the noise soon became louder, and it came closer so rapidly that I concluded it was NO LOGGING OPERATION.
SOMEONE MUST BE CUTTING A TRAIL THRU THOSE THICKETS OF WHICH I
HAVE ALWAYS BEEN especially fond, because they are difficult to walk through, and therefore I had always felt sure of my solitude in them.
AND I COULD HEAR THEIR VOICES. I sneaked through the thickets very quietly. I passed close to a male spruce grouse which had been resting on the ground, sitting flat on its belly. It moved slowly away, watching me dubiously. When I got close enough, I stood and watched THE CUTTERS. I
COU HAVE LD SHOT ONE, BUT I WAS AFRAID THAT IN THAT CASE I MIGHT BE TRACKED
PEOPLE WHO HAVE ONE OF THE CABINS AT THE MOUTH OF ROCHESTER GULCH.
I think these people are some of the MAIN CULPRITS
MOTORCYCLES climb up to get up on the ridge. This new TRATIL WOULD NICELY
After watching them play with their CHAINSAWS A WHILE, I sneaked around behind them and followed BACK ALONG THEIR OWN TRAIL for PAGE 14 maybe or mile until I found where THEY HAD LEFT THEIR
CYCLE RUNNING UP WHERE THE OTHER TWO CYCLES HAD BEEN LEFT.
AND DOWN in the general direction of the MOUTH OF ROCHESTER. I waited a while longer, and, all being quiet, I loaded up my pack and moved out. I was more successful than I'd expected (though not completely so) in being QUIRT WITH THE PACK IN MAY 5 THE THICKET. After some hard work getting through that stuff, I went down to a favorite campsite of mine, near where I HAD MY SECRET SHACK. Here I found the peace I wanted.
I was particularly pleased with myself after this incident,. for 2 reasons. For one thing, it was a very NEAT TRICK THAT I PULLED.
WHERE THEY WOULD hardly expect to FIND ANY PEOPLE.
PRES OF UNITED ALL., BUT HE WAS ONLY ONE OF A VAST ARMY
PEOPLE WHO directly and indirectly are responsible for the JETS.
SO THE REVENGE WAS long delayed, vaguely directed, and inadequate TO
Sept. 23, 1980: Yesterday I got back from a 5-day excursion in mostly wet, grizzly or rainy weather. Generally slept cold at night. At the age of 38, I should be well over the hill physically, but I was very pleased with the way I held up on this strenuous trip--was surprisingly little troubled with fatigue.
But felt it after I got home.) I travelled very light; took no cooking utensils and mostly ate home-made bakingpewed powder bread hung up to dry out) and parched oats. Beited Boiled drinking water right in the canteen. For the first time I used the old-fashioned blanket-roll pack blanket rolled up lengthwise and slung over one shoulder diagonally across body, some articles carried rolled up in the blanket). This pack would never do if any substantial quantity of stuff was to be carried, but for travelling light I was delighted with it, because of the way the weight was distributed.
I camped for the first time on the PAGE 18 MAY 10 West Fork of Willow Creek. I explored to the west, and, for the first time in this country, I got really lost. I took no compas (hardly ever need it) and cloud totally obscured the sun. Of course I had counted on following the ridges, but it seems that in the Dalton area there are much more extensive flats than I realized, and when I finally got myself "found" again I was astonished at my location. Horace Kephart describes. the wood of Tamarack march, as s/o strong, tough, and not liable to check, and one purpose of my trip was to get some tamarack wood to try it for tool handles and other uses.
Tamarack is very scarce around here. I recalled seeing it only once before, on the upper reaches of Willow Creek, a few years ago. s/o PAGE 18 MAY 11 So far as I know there is only that one stand of a few trees there, and I had some trouble finding them again, but find them again sic]. These tamaracks are most beautiful and noble trees!
They axe were all big, tall, straight trees with attractive bark and beautiful, lay, light-green foliage.
the common trees around here, the only one whose beauty I appreciate at. first sight was the
But the tamaracks impressed me immediately. Their beauty was more subdued than that of the Ponderosa, but they gave a greater impression of perfection, nobility, and purity. Of course, those words don't convey much, because they are worn-out and trite.
I wish I could convey the impression PAGE 19 MAY 12 of perfection that these trees made on me. They grew in open woods on a hillside, not in the most ground where American tamaracks are supposed to grow typically. There were no young tamaracks, that I saw, and it would have been unthinkable to cut down one of those big trees just for a small amount of wood; but one of them luckily had a su sucker, or small subordinate tree growing from the same root, which might have been 5 inches in diameter.
I cut this off, and it being much too big to carry home) I cut off a piece maybe 3 or inches diameter at the thick end and 18 or 20 feet long to take with me. I was unhappy to have to leave the rest behind, because it seemed wasteful and because I'd like very much to have the wood if it's as good as Kephart says. Maybe I'll PAGE 19 MAY 13 have a chance to fetch another piece some other time. But I was very pleased with myself at getting the piece I did get, atat and at performing the feat of dragging it home over several miles of rough, wooded mountains. It probably weighed around 30 pounds. But those trees were so wonderful that it almost seemed like a sin te even to cut off the sucker.
of my cabin, where I camped on the way home from this trip, there are areas of small lodgepoles interspersed with groves of big, old Alpine firs and Engelman spruces, which grow in most areas where water seeps from the ground.
Generally these springs are surrounded by little clearing, which in turn are surrounded by these groves. These PAGE 20 MAY 14 groves are wonderful, silent places which inspire a feeling of peace and reference. One can well understand why our ancestors of Northern Europe had their scared groves.
Sept. 26. Feeling a need for an improvement in die, I went out hunting and foraging yesterday. At the pod in the nook in the hill north of the Cabin, approaching cautiously through the mist it was a misty morning) I spotted a duck feeding. Crawling closer, I found there was a whole flock of perhaps eight ducks. I inches forward flat on my belly without the ducks noticing anything until, just when I figured I was close enough for a shot, one of them became suspicious. The ducks had all been feeding avidly, but and this one stopped
feeding suddenly and just looked. Gradually the other ducks became alerted and they gathered together a little way off as if PAGE 20 MAY 15 wondering wither whether to swim to a more secure location. One of the laggards, casually moving toward the others, climbed up on a log. This gave me a clear shot. I hit the bird almost through the shoulders, disabling it. It climbed up on shore. When I went to pick it up it flipped back into the water, but I easily caught it without having to get wet above the middle of my calf. On the way home I found some excellent Yampa digging (relatively large roots), and I brought home just short of pints of this tasty food. Also picked some rose hips. Today I had an excellent lunch consisting of raw brooklime and radishes from my garden; a soup of wild due duck, radish greens, a few wild greens, about half the yampa, one level tablespoon of rice, and a pinch of salt; and a handful of choke cherries for dessert. I still have half the duck and yampa for tomorrow. Aside from PAGE 21 MAY 16 cleaning the yampa, a quiet ramble up the guich, and baking bread, I took it easy today. A good day. Now, I have relatively little experience with ducks, since I don't often visit suitable places for them. I am used to recognizing mallards by their green heads.
The duck I killed had no green head, yet I believe it was a male mallard, because it had some greenish feathers on the back of its head, and in all other respects satisfied the description of a mallard in my rather inadequate book. I figure that either this specimen was just hatched this year and not fully mature, or else that male mallards' colors fade after the breeding season, as is the case with some other birds.
I saved some feathers from this birds blue wing patch, and they exactly resemble the corresponding feathers from the duck I killed a couple of years ago which I thought was a shoveler duck. Presumably, PAGE 21 MAY 17 then, that was a misidentification. Trouble is, I like to pluck birds immediately because they are harder to pluck when cold, so I have to rely on memory when I later look them up in the book.
Oct. 10. I am planning to build a root cellar, which I will also design to serve as a fallout shelter if necessary. This is not because I think nuclear war is likely on the contrary, I think it is improbable, except perhaps for smallscale wars in unstable parts of the world where some nations are expected to get PAGE 22 MAY 18 atom bombs in a few years). If it were simply a matter of maximizing my life expectancy, there are other measures that I would take that would be me much more important than a fallout shelter. But death from nuclear fallout would be particularly humiliating one would be the helpless and impotent victim of the decisions of dictator or politician thousands of miles away, beyond one's reach. However, with a fallout
shelter one would no longer be totally helpless, because one would have a good chance of being able to protect oneself. This would partly relieve the sense of helpless anger at the power games played by dictator and politician. Furthermore: Even though an atomic would put me in serious personal danger even with a fallout shelter, nevertheless, if I had such PAGE 22 MAY 19 a shelter, I would regard: a major nuclear war as a possible opportunity. If of the population of this country were wiped out and the economic system smashed, invasion of the wilderness would presumably cease for a long time to come. Of course, the fallout itself might do devastating damage to plants and wildlife, but for a considerable period of (time) it's likely enough that there would be far more opportunity for solitude, independence, and a way of life that is not under the deminatien domination of The System. It's true, though, that nuclear war might promptly be followed by the introduction of some dictatorial regime, either regional or nationwide, originating either inside inside or outside the US. On PAGE 23 MAY 20 the other hand, in view of the shattered condition of society, it would probably be a long time before such a regime got around to establishing control over backwoods hermit it would be too busy trying to get the main center of society under control and functioning again. Anyway, the point I wanted to make is merely that, for me, if I had a shelter, a nuclear war would not be only it would also be an admittedly very opportunity perhaps. And I'd hate to miss that opportunity just from being too lazy to build a fallout shelter.
Oct. 13. A couple of weeks ago, on the south slope of Baldy, I found wonderful Oregon-grape picking. I got s/o over 7 quarts and could have got more if I'd had more bags to PAGE 23 MAY 21 carry them in. So I had about a quart of juice a day for 5 days, and I put up two 1%-pint bottles sealed with paraffin to save for later. Since the hunting and gathering reported on Sept. 26, I've shot another mallard and 3 blue grouse and dug altogether almost another quart of yampa at the same place, and all this stuff, together with rosehips and other odds and ends of wild stuff, has made a very important contribution to my die, which without it is pretty bad, especially since I can't start using my canned fruit or certain other winter supplies until Oct. 15, the way I have things rationed. Also, I gathered shepherd-purse seeds from plants that grew as weeds in my garden and ground them to a course meal on a flat stone. This yielded about cup meal. I PAGE 24 MAY 22 mixed this with 1 s/o cup white flour and cup sourdough starter and the resulting bread had a remarkable flavor that I found very pleasant.
By the way, my guts have been behaving much, much better in recent months. Apparently the reason is that I've been making an effort to get enough fiber in my die. Also, mostly stopped using baking-powder bread, and make sourdough instead.
I haven't been able to spend as much time as I wish hunting for meat and wild vegetables because of some projects I have on hand. I had some canned goods and other delicacies to let me spend my time on the projects instead of hunting, but that stuff has long since run out, and it isn't convenient for me to PAGE 24 MAY 23 go to town for more just yet.
Oct. 18. Men get tired of prosperity, just as they are afflicted by the reverse."
Wild carrots Daucus do not naturally grow around here, but I have some in my garden, grown from seeds originating in Illinois.
Yesterday I harvested some and ate them with great enjoyment. Today I had a delicious stew of rabbit meat, shaggy-mane mushrooms, wild carrot roots and greens the greens do seem to be edible), a couple of heaping spoonfuls of cornmeal, and a very small amount of rice. These roots are much starchier than domestic carrots, but not quite so starchy as domestic parsnips. The bigger ones are about the diameter of my little PAGE 25 MAY 24 finger, but much-longer. The roots are tough when raw, but become tender when boiled for 20 minutes or more. I ate a lot of these carrots back in Illinois and my experience was that roasting did not make the roots tender--boiling was necessary.
The plants seem to be able to resist hard frosts quite well.
Nov.2 Titormus waste was the strongest man in Greece and went to live in the remotest part of Aetolia to avoid intercourse with his kind." Herodotus, Book Six, 433 of the Penguin edition
liners made from the remains of my old worn-out sleeping bag that I saved. In moderate temperatures they could also be used without the liners, the fur alone then serving as insulation. All my other mittens are quite worn out, except for the down-filled ones that I bought in 1973. These I've used only in very cold: weather and never for rough work, because they were expensive So that Ecan. continue
Nov. I have just re-read, for I suppose the 4th or 5th time, Joseph Wood Krutch's s/o Desert Year".
I admire this book. To me, the first chapter, Why I came", is a most wonderful piece of writing. It goes right to my heart.
Jan. 3, 1981. Very mild winter so far--hardly any snow on the ground. A few days ago there was enough of a thaw so that it was possible to dig roots, and I made a little discovery that will be useful if confirmed by later experience: Dandelion roots are much more tender and search-filled when dug at this. time of year than they are when dug in the spring, at which time the plants have already started to grow.
GOING TO MY CAMPSITE, FAMILIAR TRIP, FIRST DAY OF THE EXCURSION, I NOTICED THAT A FAVORITE PLACE OF MINE WAS BEING RUINED BY LOGGING.
MADE ME SICK TO SEE WHERE THEY'D BULLDOZED A ROAD THRU, JUST SO THEY COULD DIG SMALL AMOUNT GOLD AS HOBBY. SO I BROKE INTO SHACK AND SMASHED UP THEIR STUFF, WHICH WAS THE PURPOSE OF THE TRIP.
OF ORGANIZED SOCIETY AS "SICK" AND THEREFORE UNHAPPY, BUT I FIND THAT I AM A HAPPY MAN. OF COURSE I HAVE HAD MUCH SATISFACTION AND HAPPINESS EVER SINCE I CAME TO LIVE IN THE MOUNTAINS, BUT ALL TOO OFTEN I WAS ACUTELY TROUBLED BY FRUSTRATED ANGER AT MOTORCYCLES, AIRPLANES,
THAT STUFF AGAINST WHICH MY JOURNALS ARE OF COMPLAINTS, AND AT THE DEATH OF WILDERNESS AND FREEDOM THAT I FORESEE. I SOMETIMES FELT AS IF I WANTED TO DIE ALONG WITH THE WILDER NESS. HOWEVER, SINCE ACQUIRING THE ABILITY TO COMMIT REVENGE CRIMES, I HAVE FOUND VAST RELIEF FROM THESE PROBLEMS. NOW MY ANGER
NEED NO LONGER BE HELD IN. ALSO, I HAVE MADE A CHANGE OF ATTITUDE.
Wild country is still best, but now I am more willing to take what good things I can get from life even when I can't isolated myself from the system nearly as much as I'd like. This change of attitude is made possible by MY REVENGE
WILD COUNTRY, FREEDOM, AND ISOLATION FROM THE SYSTEM IS BEST, AND IF THE SYSTEM DEPRIVES ME OF THESE THEN I MUST STRIKE BACK REVENGEFULLY. BUT IF I CAN STRIKE BACK, THEN I CAN BETTER ENJOY NATURE EVEN IF IT IS PARTLY RUINED BY THE INVASION OF THE SYSTEM, BECAUSE THE INVASION OF THE SYSTEM NO LONGER CHOKES ME
Jan. 21. Having chiseled and ground the surface of my flat stone to make it more efficient for grinding seeds, I am now adding a heaping tablespoonful of meal made by grinding pennycress seeds to each of my cakes of bread the pennycress meal being substitute for an equal amount of whole-wheat flour. I am short on whole-wheat flour, which I need for roughage to keep my guts acting right, so that the equally rough pennycress meal is useful in stretching my supply. It makes a dark-brown bread of very good flavor, with a mustardy bite to PAGE 30 JUNE 3 it, penmnycress being related to mustard.
When my pennycress seeds are used up, I expect to try Chenopodium album seeds, of which I also have a modest supply.
I wish I could describe how joyous it is to get up early in the morning, take the rifle under the arm, and go out to range over the hills. But I must admit that the rifle has been doing but little business this winter, because there's been so little snow. Since about early November I've only shot 11 rabbits and one squirrel and trapped one squirrel. A project I have in hand has obliged me to go to Lincoln a few times, and I've brought back a little canned fish, but it isn't really enough, so I've been getting rather meat-hungry in between the few snowfalls when I've been able to get rabbit.
Feb. 3. Caught a rabbit with a deadfall. For reasons that I won't take the trouble to describe here, I have had problems with figure 4 triggers when using a log for a deadfall. So I invented ny own trigger, which on the basis of my thus far limited experience with it) appears to be quite quitesensitive quite sensitive, yet easy to adjust its drawback being that it is relatively complicated to set, up.
Weight of log results in the stick exerting a force in the direction indicated by the arrow a, but this force is slight, because of the leverage situation. Trigger stick re prevents from moving in direction of arrow a, but trigger stick is held in place only by the slight force exerted by stick hence a slight nudge will dislodge trigger stick A and spring trap. pu Purposeof
inserted between trigger stick A and fixed object is to make position of trigger stick more precarious so that trap will be more sensitive to slight nudge.
Feb. 5: I ground up some Chenopodium album?) seeds to make about pint of black meal. Mixed with flour and stuff this makes a very tasty bread, but apparently it JUNE 6 has some irritant or marked laxative effect, because, having eaten at dusk a cake of bread containing 3 heaping tablespoon of Chenopodium meal, I had a mild case of diarrhea the following dawn. Well, tough luck, but one can learn these things only by trying. Used in very small amounts the meal does not seem to have this effect, so I guess I'll use it up a little at atime. At least I've found meal from shepherd-purse and from pennycress to be good. Books I've read that say Chenopodium album seeds are edible, say
nothing about the laxative effect; maybe I have a different species of Chenopodium don't have botanical manual for precise identification) or maybe those authors just had tougher guts than me.
Feb. 8. Having set some traps, yesterday PAGE 32 JUNE 7 morning I found I'd caught a rabbit in a steel trap, but something had killed it and eated eaten about a third of it. Fortunately the hind legs and lower back best part of the meat) were untouched. I assumed a weasel had done it, that being by far the most common small predator around here. I saw no definite weasel tracks, but thought they might have been covered or disguised by some snow that had fallen. I rest. the traps and left a scrap of the rabbit by them in hope of catching the weasel, which otherwise would likely eat part of any rabbit I might catch in that place. This morning when I checked the traps I found to my great dismay that I'd caught a horned
I like owls so much. Of course, I like rabbit and weasels too, but they are so much more common. So JUNE far as I know, owls are not very common around here. I very much enjoy hearing them hoot at night, but don't often have a chance to do so.
I think it was the great gray) that used to entertain me with its shooting at one of my regular campsite. 7 This bird, by the way, was most beautiful to me, anyway.
Especially its eyes large black pupil surrounded by an irish of bright, clear yellow. It looked me straight in the eyes at all times when it was physically possible for it to do so. A rabbit or rock chuck caught in a trap react with abject panic when approached;
PAGE 33 a weasel tries to attack. The appeared stoical. It did put itself on the defensive when approached too closely, but was neither panieky panicky nor aggressive.
Subjectively one would conjecture that a trapped weasel or suffer much less than a rabbit or rock chuck with its uncontrolled panic, but I'm not sure how meaningful such a comparison is. Anyhow, while my reaction to a trapped rabbit is one of strong pity, I felt relatively little pity for the Instead, I felt respect, admiration for both its character and its beauty, and very strong regret at having severely injured such an animal. The trapped foot was dangling from the ankle and frozen solid. But because I was extremely reluctant to kill this PAGE 33 JUNE 10 bird I freed it from the trap and kept it alive for 20 minutes or so, even taking it into the cabin. I didn't want to let it go, figuring it would die miserable from injection or from inability to take care of itself with one foot. I thought of keeping it around permanently, but I don't see how I could feed it, since I often have to go meatless myself for astretch. I thought of giving it tothe gameywarden, but not knowing what are the regulations about setting traps I was afraid I might get into trouble about it and besides, I hate the idea of a wild animal being "institutionalized" at the humane society or some such place. So, with deep regret, I finally decided to knock the on the head. Well, I can't do any anything about it now, so I might i as well look on the bright side.
The bird had a considerable amount amount of fat on it, and the meat looked dark-red and rich, so maybe it will be good eating. I'11 cook it tomorrow.
Best s/o of all, some happy continent as the western one America with its Savannahs, where whosoever has four willing limbs finds food under his feet and an infinite sky over his head) can do without governing."
Similarity of this remark to my own viewpoint is most interesting, coming from the order-loving
Feb. 10. Winter has come at last with a vengeance! In the last week or 10 days or whatever it is we've had a good PAGE 34 JUNE 12 deal of snow. Yesterday, at dawn.
Last night I thought, gee this is an awful cold night." When I went out shortly after dawn this morning, my thermometer read more than below zero! Which probably correspond to a real temperature of about 33 below zero; by a margin of the coldest temperature I've ever seen here. And, as my cabin is in a warm spot, it was probably or below at some places not far from here. I walked up to Humbug Contour Road, where I imagine the temperature likely was down around below. What with the exercise, my home-made rabbitskin-lined coat, groundhog-skin mittens, etc., etc., kept me tasty-warm, though my toes felt a little frosty at first, until the exercise got the blood PAGE 35 JUNE 13 circulating vigorously. Then I came down again and s/o cut a lab of firewood. Beautiful sunshine now, but still pretty cold.
Feb. 18. No one ought to believe anything that my parents or brother say about me. All three of them have weak characters and undisciplined minds anything they say about me (even concerning concrete facts) is likely to be grossly distorted by emotional factors.
Do not recall having heard them grunting this early before; but it's been a mild winter and very early spring. If early spring means early grouse-grunting, then their grunting season must be governed by weather, not by astronomical time of year. I'd previously assumed astronomical time of year was the Whether good or bad.
April 14. After a spell of prematurely fine spring weather, we had a spell of cold weather with many light snowfalls. Got plenty of wild onions, but otherwise vegetables were scant. Kept. pretty well supplied with meat this spring, following a winter in which meat was pretty scant, owing to paucity of fresh snowfalls to make rabbit hunting tracking possible. Got only 29 rabbits this year, including those I got this spring shot at cost of 27 cartridges, 3 trapped; but ate of one of those (3). Today for a change had beautiful sunny weather; at dawn but warm later. Was out at dawn and took long ramble over the hills PAGE 36 JUNE 15 had excellent luck got 2 male blue grouse and one rabbit. the first grouse I located by its grunting high up ina tree! Unusual. Usually they grant on the ground. Also, the waterleaf is starting to come up, and as dandelions, bitterroot and 1 or 2 other things are available I should do alright on vegetables A good day.
April 16. Have been having some most delicious soups made from rice, wild meat, and assorted wild roots and herbs.
Treated myself to an easy day today did only a little work, spent considerable time just sitting around here and there looking at things and enjoying the wind. Peaceful.
April 21. From Barbarie Civilization and Rusticity s/o by the Argentine Domingo Faustino Thus, life in the country PAGE 36 JUNE 16 developed physical skills in the Gaucho but it did not develop his intelligence. His moral character becomes compromised by his habit of overcoming obstacles and the forces of nature. He is strong, haughty, energetic. He has no education and does not need one.
He has neither means of subsistence nor needs. He is happy in the midst of his poverty and deprivation, which he doesn't recognize as such, since he knows no other joy and does not aspire to greater heights.
Therefore, if rusticity is at the root of this dissolution of society, since any moral and intellectual education is both impossible and useless, it does, nevertheless, possess. a certain attractiveness.
April 22. This morning I shot a ruffed grouse that was drumming near the cabin, PAGE 37 JUNE 17 by crawling on the ground to sneak up on it, which is not easy to do.
In order to illustrate some of the fekeries fakeries and shams that apparently are necessary for the functioning of technological society, I will construct a hypothetical example: A college professor has been grossly insulted by an insubordinate student. He task takes the matter to the Dean, and, to make sure that the student is punished to his satisfaction, and does not get off with a mere reprimand, he indicates to the Dean the strength of his feelings on the matter.
Case 1. First let us suppose that the Professor says: This incident has wounded my sanity and made me very angry. In order to have an outlet for my anger and get revenge on this student, I want to JUNE 18 be sure that you will have him adequately punished." In this case the Dean will probably take a very view of the professors attitude, and the fact that the professor has explicitly expressed a desire for revenge on the student will, if anything, inclined the Dean to be more lenient, set rather than harsher, with the student.
Case 2. Now let us suppose instead that the professor says to the Dean with the same manner and gestures as in Case (1): I want you to know that I take this matter very seriously. not feel that any college can function adequately when students are permitted to indulge in this kind of gross insubordination. I feel that this student should be properly punished disciplined in order to show the student-body as
JUNE 19 whole that there are certain limits which cannot be overstepped. The insult to me personally is of no great great importance, but the well-being of the college community requires bla bla bla bla bla etc. etc. In this case the Dean is likely to receive favorably the professors sea spiel, and probably will be i harder on the student than 2-tke he Prefesserhadnetspekentehim would have been if the professor had not insisted on firm discipline". Yet he knows somewhere down inside, even if he doesn't admit it to himself that the professors motive is anger at a personal insult and that he wants to have an outlet for that anger which is just another way of saying that he wants revenge on the student). After all, the professor JUNE 20 wouldn't be so upset and insistent on discipline" if it had been some other professor who was insulted. the Dean doesn't realize that the professors motive is revenge, he certainly au ought to, because it is obvious. Yet, because in one case the professor has dressed dressed up his motive in certain conventional verbal formulas, he will get an entirely different reaction than he does in
Now, I am fairly sure that there are some people who will reject the ideas, motives, and attitudes expressed in my notes and journals simply because I have stated everything too boldly and explicitly.
s/o And these same people would have accepted much of what I've written PAGE 39 JUNE 21 if I had provided a veneer of xationalizations and moralistic justification stuff about the wellbeing of humanity" and all that crap even though my real motives attr were sufficiently obvious. It's just that these people would need a lot of window-dressing to enable them this stuff.
to feel comfortable with April 25. Have had very good success with grouse hunting this spring. Thus far have killed 9 blue grouse at a cost of 10 and one ruffed With these, and the last few rabbit I killed, I've kept myself wellsupplied with meat. Wild vegetables have been rather slow-growing because of the cold,. cloudy weather, but by working a little harder I've got plenty of vegetables too, and have been enjoying some wonderful soups. Had a good s/o outing up on the ridges this morning: The PAGE 39 JUNE 22 Wisp was calling me not very strongly, but enough. I discovered a-plant belonging to the Mint family that I've never seen before just one specimen of it couldn't find any others around.
April 30. A bad day. Shot a blue grouse a clean shot, and I'm pretty sure I hit it) but it flew and I couldn't find it. This-means I've got 10 grouse for 12 shots this spring 5/6, a bad average. Of course, this spoils my day. 5 May 6. From now on I think I'll write my confessions on illegal hunting in Spanish because it'll be safer in case someone sees these notebooks by accident. The name of the bird, having the scientific name of Dendragapus obsurus, is not in my Spanish dictionary. I will therefore call this bird, PAGE 40 JUNE 23 thick and blue bird. Only a few days ago I caught a flaviventris marmot
with a steel trap. It was a big marmot. Yesterday I shot a thick and blue bird. Then I wanted to dig some bitterroot. But I forgot my root-digging too tools. Fortunately, I found a stag horn and I discovered that it was better than my tools for digging certain roots. While I was digging roots, I feu.found a very strange shooting-star plant it had pure white flowers. Very beautiful. Generally the flowers on shooting-stars are pink. I have never seen a shooting-star with white flowers before. s/o Every time PAGE 40 JUNE 24 I eat bitterroot I like it better.
June 23. Maybe 4 weeks ago I shot a ground-hog ground 2. Ww bullied near cabin. I hit it in ie head; locked it down and found blood at the site. But before I could retrieve it, it b7C recovered enough to go to his burrow.
Although I-spent a long time digging the burro not get it. It was under cabin. Excrement!
Well, I will no doubt raise my average again when I hunt other times. Ne-he PAGE 41 JUNE 25 I have not hunted recently because I am busy digging a root cellar, and with other projects. I've bought some canned fish for meat.
first appeared in La Ciudad de un "One Man's City" by Leonidas Our city sure is beautiful! With these guys who don't believe in anything! And who don't respect anything, not even the president! No one here can pretend to be important because no one cares And we care about something, it's to oppose an adversary, and for a short time. This is what I want. That's how it should be.
AND ANOTHER TYPE OF "RECREATIONAL VEHICLE." IT WAS MY SECOND OR THIRD RAID TO THIS CABIN.
THIS TOOK ME A LONG TIME, FOR A YEAR AND A HALF, THEREBY PREVENTING ME FROM WORKING ON SOME OTHER PROJECTS I WOULD
HAVE LIKED TO CARRY OUT. GUN WORKS PISTOL SHOT LIKE ME. IT IS EQUIPPED
WITH IMPROVISED SILENCER WHICH DOES NOT WORK AS WELL AS I HOPED. GUESS IT CUTS NOISE DOWN TO MAYBE ONE THIRD. IT IS SAID THAT IT IS EASY
FOR MACHINIST TO MAKE A GUN, BUT OF COURSE I DID NOT HAVE MACHINE TOOLS, BUT ONLY A FEW FILES, HACKSAW BLADES, SMALL VICE,
I TOOK THE BARREL FROM AN OLD PNEUMATIC PISTOL. I MADE THE OTHER PARTS OUT OF SEVERAL METAL PIECES. MOST OF THEM COME FROM THE OLD ABANDONED CARS NEAR HERE. I NEEDED TO MAKE THE PARTS WITH ENOUGH PRECISION BUT I MADE THEM WELL AND I'M VERY SATISFIED. I WANT TO USE THE GUN AS A HOMICIDE WEAPON.
Well, I was going to write in Spanish, to practice, but I forgot. Yesterday, a little bit before sunset, I found a hummingbird's nest. At least I think so. It was a dark object that was high up in a Douglas and the hummingbird rested on it several times, but I could not see if it was really a nest. I did not want to climb the tree to see, because PAGE 45 JULY 4 I did not want to bother the bird or disturb the delicate nest. If I am right in thinking that this is the nest, it's the first time I've seen a hummingbird's nest since I saw one really close in California many years ago. A robin or two?) raised two babies in a nest near my cabin this spring.
November 14. Since the last time I wrote in this notebook, the following has occurred: I killed two enormous porcupines, the first in early August, the second towards mid October. I shot both in the head with my "twenty-two." I ate almost nothing but the meat of the first porcupine for three days, and I even had enough meat for the PAGE 46 JULY 5 meat part of my die for another three days. The second one provided me with an ample amount of meat for approximately eleven days. In August I shot two blue partridges. In October I shot a ruff partridge, whieh which I saw while unsuccessfully hunting a hare. This partridge was sitting still on the ground, without it knowing I had seen it.
I have not had much.itime to hunt or look for wild plants, since I have been busy with my root cellar.
Anyway, I would not have hunted ducks since the newspapers said that wild ducks are now contaminated with a dangerous insecticide called "endrin." Since the huckleberry crop was scarce, in PAGE 46 JULY 6 late summer I used other berries of inferior quality; that is, black twinberries and black currants. I discovered that black twinberries are not a bad food if you eat them by the spoonful and not one by one.
It is interesting that some berries taste better when eaten by the spoonful and not one by one.) Before, I had igreat repulsion for black
maybe because I once tried to eat a lot of black currants that were not quite rip. But now this repulsion has disappeared and I like black currants quite well when they are completely rip. I have learned to recognize a new edible plant; that is, white aster. I grew some delicious tasting parsnip in my garden, PAGE 47 JULY 7 and also, wild" carrots, also good tasting. Fex-the-winter To eat during the winter, I have dried some strawberries and black currants, some rhubarb, some settle and wild" carrot greens and some watercress.
I put up some rhubarb preserves and white currants in wax-covered jars jars). Of course I have many dried dandelion roots picked in the spring. I have discovered that rose hips are very good to eat (without cooking) if the seeds are removed and the berries are rolled in sugar. I would like to have more time to do such things, but the damn cellar and other important projects.
November In.my.-earlier notes I mentioned that I built a very small log cabin in an isolated site several years ago. I spent some weeks there during three winters and I would use it as shelter when I passed through there in the summer, if it rained. Near the cabin was a piace favorite place of mine where I would usually camp out;
it was probably something related to some official project; maybe some inspection or measurements or land survey. From this direction it was not difficult to see the cabin, in spite of my txiesattempts to cover it. And it looked like someone doubt the pexs JULY 9 person who placed the strip) found the cabin, since the logs that covered the door were pushed to the side and some plastic sheeting I had used to keep water out) had been taken out of the cabin.
This made me feel very sad because this had, been a favorite place of mine and the fact that someone (especially someone official) hadhad discovered. i 3 in a way.
Beautiful sunny morning a good day. This fall and winter I have, so far, shot 5 rabbits and one squirrel. My "average" ie. ratio of number of animals killed to number of shots fired), computed on the basis of hunting done since August 1981, is now once again better than as it normally is. It had fallen below that when I messed up a shot at-a-stock chuck last July.
Led The snow condition was not good for this but I felt like going to the top of the and a hike. I was not successful as far as the hares there but PAGE 49 JULY 11 I found the prints of a ruff partridge and after following the prints for a while I fdund the partridge and shot it.
While on my way back home, on the slope over the cliff not very far below the old mine, I followed a here's prints and I found it shortly after and shot it. When I write ruff I. mean Bonasa umbellus (scientific name)
I forgot to mention that I was surprised that a ruff partridge would be on top of a hill ina type of area preferred by blue partridges. Generally, ruff partridges are found in lower areas of dense vegetation, especially near PAGE 49 JULY 12 swampy streams. I I have used the verb ef sstosts incorrectly previous I b7c have written shoot" replace with kill wi rifle." Dec. 14. Snow conditions fairly good for rabbit hunting this morning, so I went up on the ridge and shot 4 rabbit. Actually I got the first one down here in the gulch before heading up on the ridge, and this one was somewhat of a break, as it had bre a brown patch on top of its head, brown edge to its ears, and brown hair around its eyes, though temperatures have been cold enough so that all the other rabbit have turned entirely white, except of course for the black-tipped ears.
This morning. snow conditions were good so I went out for rabbit--but only a short excursion because I was tired from cutting PAGE 50 JULY 13 firewood the preceding day. Killed one rabbit on slope of the hill that lies of cabin actually down at the foot of the slope. On the Not seeing signs of other rabbit whereabouts I came home; but at the flat clearing just below the narrow part of my home gulch some fresh rabbit tracks showed me where a rabbit was hiding in a thick clump of pillow. It was the kind of situation where one can get very close to the rabbit but it's hard to get a clear shot where you can be sure the bullet won't be deflected by a twig. So I thought I would go get my bow and arrow not that it's easier to shoot through brush with an arrow, but you can always recover your arrow if you miss and you haven't wasted a cartridge. Actually though, my main motive for using an arrow was simply to get the rabbit in this more primitive way rather than PAGE JULY 14 by means of a firearm. I got the rabbit with the arrow ak alright; a clean kill at range of about 3 or 4 feet. The arrow punctured the animals skull. Actually I was aiming for the chest, but you can't expect to be accurate shooting an arrow through brush. This is the first time I have ever killed a rabbit with bow and arrow or have even tried to do so, though I've taken, ew
Jan. 2, 1982. Fair snow conditions yesterday, so I went out for rabbit. Because, I suppose, of the fact that I kill many rabbit every winter on the ridge around Baldy and east thereof, the rabbit population there and here in Florence Gulch is getting scant, and most of the rabbit I get are rather small I suppose they PAGE 51 JULY 15 are young rabbit, perhaps moving into the area from more populated parts, in search of living-space. So to ease up the pressure on these areas I went across Stemple pass road and up on the big to hunt in the area where my camp is, that I've used many times. The day started out bad; for example, I fell and bruised myself.
But by the time I got up on the in that wonderful stretch of wild country up there, everything was going well. Though snow conditions were less than ideal I got 5 rabbit, 4 with the and one with bow and arrow the arrow neatly transfixed the skull. Range: 5 or 6 feet distance from me to rabbit distance from tip of arrow to rabbit might have been 3 or 4 feet.) The PAGE 51 JULY 16 last rabbit I got on the way home;
I just spotted it sitting there without having to trail it. That doesn't often happen. Luck! The rabbit certainly seem more abundant up there, and those I killed were
As it is a pretty good hike up there and the snowshoeing was fairly strenuous owing to soft, fluffy snow, I was out from dawn to dusk say 9 hours and came home more exhausted than it is good to be. 5 rabbits together with rifle, bow, and heavy coat make a pretty good lad to carry over steep slope through soft snow. But it was a very good day up there in that beautiful country. However, while PAGE 52 JULY 17 on my way home, it didn't go very well for me because I had the misfortune of running into some stupid people driving machines over the snow. It looked like they were going over the same course repeatedly, over and over again, without a comprehensible reason, like idiot repeating a ritual. Or, actually, like children playing--even though they were adults as far as age, if not mentally.
t-aveideould I could have avoided them if, upon crossing their trail, I would have gone directly downhill.
But because I was tired, I risked going on their trail one or two hundred yards so I could go down an easier way; and this is how I ran into them Damn! Fortunately, they did not stop to talk. It was such a good day that even this PAGE 52 JULY
Nevertheless, I don't think I'll hunt on the other side of Stemple Pass Road this winter anymore. Even though the country on the top is wonderful, to go there you have to cross Stemple Pass Road and too much land full of logging roads where stupid people go, like those who re drive the machines over the snow.
This morning was cold (zero) and very quiet, and when I went out to get needles and do a few other minor chores it was so nice that I spent a good deal of time just standing around listening to the silence and looking at the early morning light over the paddle by Baldy. Today is a happy day. As the major part of lunch I had the livers and kidney of those rabbit PAGE 53 JULY 19 always a treat and a couple of the heads. With a little needle tea (one spoon sugar) and a can of applesauce this made a very good lunch also I boiled dried herbs and roots with the rabbit parts to make an excellent soup.
Jan 4. Another beautiful, silent morning today. Silence is golden. Thus far this winter we've been having. more snowthan in the past couple of winters;
Jan. 9. Today I weighed one of the rabbit I killed Jan. 1 by the crude method of balancing it against a can of cranberry sauce, 1
Naturally the rabbit was all skinned and SEE ORIGINAL DRAWING cleaned and so forth.
As I suppose the PAGE 53 JULY 20 light bones of the rabbit might about equal the weight of the tin can, I figure roughly a pound of meat on a fully mature rabbit of typical size. Of course the rabbit might weigh slightly more when weighed fresh, since the meat loses moisture through but I don't think this rabbit dried too much it was frozen most of the time. Also, this neglect the weight ofbrain, tongue, internal organs, abdominal wall, etc., as all these parts are separated from the carcass when the rabbit are cleaned. At a guess, I'd put the weight of all these odds and ends from the 5 rabbit I killed at another pound, or 1/5 per rabbit. So I suppose we might figure around 11/5 lb. of edible tissue for a fully mature Lepus Americanus. The PAGE 54 JULY 21 younger, smaller rabbit that I've killed so many of around here I suppose might be about of that some time I may weigh one to find out.
I forgot to mention the following. Last year when I set some steel traps for rabbit, I once found 2 toes in atrap. A rabbit had evidently been caught but had broken away leaving behind a couple of toes. During this last December, I think it was, I shot a rabbit in the same general area that lacked two toes from a hind foot. So I finally got that rabbit a year after it had the misfortune to encounter my trap. I don't suppose the lack of 2 toes caused it a great deal of inconvenience.
Jan. 11. Last summer I dried some wild strawberries. I've already started to PAGE 54 JULY 22 eat them and they have an excellent flavor.
Jan. 14. My marmot-skin, fingerless gloves served me well last winter and have served me well this winter so far. The skins are strong and withstand friction better than I thought; although they have had to be repaired a few times, generally at the seams.
But I have observed that tanning with smoke does not make them withstand the continuous wetting and drying.
In the beginning, when the gloves got wet, they would dry and remain almost as flexible as before they were wet. But I would wet them almost every time I used them and they slowly began to turn stiff as they dried, until now, after having gotten wet and having dried maybe a hundred times, they beceme have become so stiff when they dry that I have to soften them PAGE 55 JULY 23 manually before I put them
At daybreak I was surprised that the thermometer said since I did not feel very cold inside the cabin. Generally, it is cold inside the cabin when the temperature is or less outside--especially if it is as windy as it was this morning.
Walking on snowshoes was tremendously difficult becauseof the deep and soft snow. killed three hares. The smallest one had the typical size of the small young hares I kill see pages July 14, July 15, July 2i in this notebook).
I would have thought the difference between these small hares and the bigger ones I killed vdan-2 January 2 would have been bigger. Maybe the difference would have been bigger if I had weighed this hare after hanging it a few days, so that it would have dried.
Also, it is possible that the sauce cans don't all-have.exactly the same weight. But we can certainly say that the hares (even the small ones) provide a little over one pound of meat, including the internal organs.
1. Several weeks ago my Aunt sent me a copy of the b7c PAGE 56 JULY 26 aper El de Arizona" Arizona Sun" a newspaper bE mted in Spanish. In his mn b7C Apuntes de la My Weekly Notes" Julio Mancill writes, Another scared animal was the silver bear and the eagle, symbol of freedom and power, so much so that the Apaches always sought its feathers to decorated their heads." This sentence is.
not very clear, but evidently what Mr. Mancillas wants to say is that the eagle was a symbol of a free life for the Apaches. Some years back I mentioned in my notes a case in which a Berber nomad used the eagle as a symbol of a free life. And of course this symbolism is very familiar to us.
went BY WASHINGTON CREEK SAW CABIN BELONGING TO BAD PEOPLE. THEY HAD BRAND NEW PICKUP, SLICK-LOOKING FIXINGS INSIDE CABIN.) SIX STEEL TRAPS HANGING OUTSIDE CABIN, BUT NOT CONVENIENT
GOT TRAPS, BROKE INTO CABIN AND GOT ANOTHER DAY'S RATIONS. FARTHER AWAY, BELOW THE CREEK, THERE WAS A DREDGE AND BULLDOZER MINING OPERATION THAT RUINED THE CREEK AND IT MADE NOISE THAT COULD BE HEARD FAR AWAY HIGH ON
THEY WERE WORKING at the time and only one MACHINE STANDING AT
SLASHED TIRES, SLASHED EXPENSIVE HOSE, DAMAGED SMALL ENGINE ON IT. FRUSTRATED AT NOT BEING ABLE TO HURT MINERS MORE, I DID MINOR DAMAGE TO TWO
WHEN I WENT THIS WAY I FOUND A JERK TEARING UP THE WITH A CAT ON SOME SILLY DREAM OF FINDING GOLD IT SEEMS MINING LAWS PERMIT THIS). I LATER DAMAGED HIS TRACTOR AS MUCH AS I COULD. THIS TIME WHEN I PASSED
BY THERE, NO SIGN OF. FURTHER WORK HAVING BEEN DONE. SEEMS MY VANDALISM ENDED HIS VANDALISM. ON WAY HOME PASSED. THRU MCCLELLAN WHERE SOME JERKS HAVE BEEN PLAYING MINER, TEARING UP CREEK IN SICKENING WAY.
I TOOK AN IMPORTANT LOOKING PART OFF ENGINE OF THEIR CAT AND BURIED IT IN BOTTOM OF ANOTHER CREEK, WHERE IT WILL RUST AWAY.
long hill which extend towards the south from the first peak to the east of Baldy, I have seen many colored gibbons on trees. I think that this means that they will do logging there, which will ruin the area. That's my favorite area, easily reachable from my cabin without staying in the woods overnight. Besides, it is the best area to hunt for hares on this side of Stemple Pass Road.
Damage to this area will make it more difficult for me to get enough meat during winter.
I took a short hike up on the hill, and then I spent almost three hours chopping firewood. This morning was very beautiful, with the cold, the sunlight, the blue sky, and the pure and white snow.
Feb. 5. This morning, it, was a little colder than yesterday; the thermometer read below zero, which indicates an actual temperature of perhaps below zero. I was outdoors for a little over an hour. I went to the top of the hill north of my cabin, taking my thermometer with me to measure the temperature.
I was surprised that it was less cold there than at the cabin. The thermometer read degrees below PAGE 60
FROM THIS AND CERTAIN OTHER EVIDENCE AND I NOW BELIEVE IT IS PEOPLE OF LOWER CABIN WHO ARE MAIN MOTORCYCLE CULPRITS
UP AT SOURCE OF ROCHESTER, AREA LITTERED UP. I WRECKED A WHEEL BARROW IT WAS THERE.
Two of them I found sitting together, about 8 ft. apart. I think this is only the second time I have ever found 2 rabbit in sight of: one another. When I shot first of the rabbit it kicked, though not as violently as they usually do; but the other rabbit gave no sign of noticing anything unusual, and I shot it, too. Beautiful sunshine day. Some of my hunting was on steep slope in very open woods in an area where I haven't hunted rabbit before.
The 4th rabbit was the one I got PAGE 62
closest to home in the steep thicket by the big rock outcrop low down in the gulch that runs down from next peak east of Baldy. Then I had to climb up onto the ridge from that area in order to go home an exhausting task, as it is s/o very difficult to get up that slope on snowshoes in winter. When I got up on top of the ridge I lay down in the snow to rest. I could see a large bird sitting in-a. dead tree on the next ridge over. By and by it took off and began soaring upward in circles on an updraft. It looked so large that it may have been an eagle rather than a haw but it's hard to tell at such a distance. I watched, absorbed, as the bird circled higher and higher. It was an entrancing sight.
After a while the spell was broken by the noise of a jet plane. But PAGE 62
still it was a very good day. There has been a good deal of cold weather this winter. Thermometer read below this morning.
But I rather like the cold. Things have been quiet lately and life is joyous. It seems I am more sensitive than ever to the attraction of. such things as sunlight, open spaces, silence, wind, snow, and even just the interior of the cabin, which after all is my own construction and is part of my way of life here.
Feb. 11 Yesterday morning the thermometer read It went up to about in the afternoon, but at daybreak today it read below zero. The are in the meadows of Baldy almost every morning PAGE 63
D' aside from the and temperatures which were the lowest ones I've recorded here besides the last winter.
Feb. 12. I RECENTLY WROTE IN A LETTER TO MY BROTHER THAT THE INHIBITIONS THAT HAVE BEEN TRAINED INTO ME ARE
TOO STRONG TO PERMIT ME EVER TO COMMIT A SERIOUS CRIME. THIS. MAY SURPRISE READER CONSIDERING SOME THINGS REPORTED IN THESE NOTES, BUT MOTIVE IS CLEAR. I WANT TO AVOID ANY POSSIBLE SUSPICION ON MY BROTHERS PART.
Feb. 14. Yesterday I hunted here in Florence Gulch. I found a hare and I hit it with an arrow from maybe a six feet PAGE 64
I followed its tracks from one place to another in the thicket for several hours but I could not get the hare. After a while I came so close to the hare that I could see it several times; but it could still run.surprisingly well in spite of the arrow which was still in its body. Once I could have killed it with my rifle but I tried to find an opportunity for the bow and arrow and the hare ran again.
I finally lost its tracks and I could not find them again altheu even though I looked for them for a long time. teeke The search was very difficult because the temperature PAGE 64
had gone up so much that the snow got sticky and it was therefore almost impossible to walk in snowshoes.
I took them off and walked without them; but this was also very difficult since I had to go through heavy snow up to my knees. Finally I tired myself out and had to drop the matter. But I cannot understand where the hare could have gone or how the tracks could have disappeared. This morning I went to see if I could find the hare but since the snow was still sticky, and I was still tired from yesterday, and since I did not see any tracks, I soon dropped it. It is quite amazing for the hare to be able to run that well and for such a long time with such an injury. I assume that the arrow went PAGE 65
through its body a little too low to hit its spine and a little high to hit its lungs. This is the first time that I have lost an injured hare. I am very sorry about this. I love hares. It was a very bad day for me. I suppose it was a very bad day for the hare as well.
It's very bad for me because it is very difficult to use snowshoes and instead of snowing, it rains, so I can't even hunt and it is even unpleasant to go for a hike.
because 2 or 3 inches of new snow lay on top of a thin crust under which was soft, melty snow. Snowshoes kept breaking through crust. Excellent hunting conditions in other respects. Went up on the beautiful ridges and got 3 rabbit, in about hours hunting.
Some cloud, but plenty of sun. Very pleasant outside For perhaps three years my parents have customarily given me 500 dollars as a gift every Christmas and every birthday.
This is 1,000 dollars a year. I little ashamed of accepting this.
Actually, a life of poverty offers more satisfaction than a life based on money. It was more satisfying to hunt and gather roots, berries, and herbs, and make clothes, etc., during the three years when I had very little money sometimes PAGE 66
less than twenty-five dollars) than now when the money I have is much more than what would be enough for my physical needs, and hunting etc., is good savings but not an absolute necessity. Actually, I would tell my parents to shove their money up their ass, if it were not that I want this money for two purposes. And these purposes are not related to the luxuries bought wit!
money, since I stil ry as sparta a life as before. One of the purposes is to provide something in case I get
ill. For example, I have a little rheumatism. It is minor and it is no problem now, but in five or ten years? Maybe turn into PAGE 66
a cripple. Well, life would not be worth much to me if I were not healthy enough to be physically active and it would be more consistent with my opinions and my attitude towards life if I went without this security and accepted an early death if it were to come to me. But I have another motive (considerably more important) for accepting this money. AND THIS
IS THAT MY PROJECTS FOR REVENGE ON THE TECHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY ARE EXPENSIVE AND I NEED MONEY TO CARRY THEM OUT.
DAMN. THIS WAS THE FIREBOMB FOUND IN OF UTAH BUSINESS SCHOOL OUTSIDE DOOR OF ROOM CONTAINING SOME COMPUTER STUFF.
March 6. A few days ago I went to get watercress. Since I had not had fresh vegetables for three and a half months, at least, I really liked the watercress.
It was sunny yesterday afternoon and the temperature was I went to the slope north of th Cabin where the snow had disappeared in many parts and the ground was defrosted.
I found one single wild onion, which I also liked a lot. Spring is almost here and soon there will be many wild onions. Sinee It has not been cold
further and had agood hike. As always, the mountains looked very beautiful to me although the sky was overcast.
March 9. It was sunny yesterday and I took another hike on the slope that are free of snow. But PAGE 68
there are still small,. snow-covered areas on these slope and the snow was very hard because it defrosted and froze again. When I crossed one of these areas on a steep slope, I lost my footing and I began to slip downhill. The area with snow ended at maybe sixty or seventy feet below me and then there were trees. Sixty or seventy feet is not much; although, after slipping over that hard snow for a distance: of sixty. feet on that? steep. slope, one can go very sickly. Since I did not want to risk a broken bone
Actually, I got it in the snow but because I was not able to control my movement over the snow well, I fell against the rifle so that the barrel of the rite hit my throat, just below my Adam's apple. It hurt! It hurt for the rest of the day, but today it doesn't hurt much. Fortunately, there was a small area of dry ground, without snow, at about 12 or 15 feet below the spot where I began to slip and at at about i five feet to the left of my path. I was able to roll so I managed to change my path to PAGE 69
Melty and sloppy down here, and snow is now compacted enough so one can do without: snowshoes, so I went hunting without them. Got 3 rabbit, 2 high up on the ridge
March 14. This morning I went uphill, for pleasure and exercise. At the top I found the tracks of a blue I followed them and a short time later I found the bird in a tree and I killed it. It was a large male and I therefore have a good supply of meat, since I killed.another.
hare the day before yesterday. Also, I got some wild onions, but very few, since it is early and the ground is still frozen. When I got home and began to carry out several chores outdoors, and while I did this, I saw a weasel that came to get pieces of hare entrails I had thrown in my vegetable garden as fertilizer. Seeing the weasel gave me great pleasure. Ht-haven't PAGE 70
seen It has been a long time since I have seen a weasel. I saw it several times when it came back to get more pieces of entrails. It ran up close a couple times, within ten or twelve feet, to look at me with curiosity.
The energy and cleverness of the weasl always impressed me. But I wo like her to be called el comadrejo a distortion of the word for in Spanish], because of mi i, b7c to me, not In Spanish, carries a feminine article;
and the weasel ran from one place to another with the squirrel on its head, while the squirrel screeched and moaned in distress. Then it seemed to me that the weasel had the squirrel by its front paw; and a short time later the weasel killed the squirrel to eat it. It would be difficult to say if my sympathy was more with the squirrel or with the weasel.
March 18. Winter is showing that its strength is still not exhausted. The thermometer read this morning, not too cold, but it snowed a lot today;
and it has been snowing for some days, with temperatures
lower than It looks like I have to wait a while before getting wild onions or dandelions.
March 29. Went to hunt on hillside of nearest watercress place. Trailed and shot one rabbit, fairly easy. This makes 42 rabbits this winter.) Felt like walking further. Found myself not far from the middle ie. not the nearest and not the farthest) watercress spring, so I went there, and found the watercress there growing lushly this year. Of course I picked some. It seemed evident that this watercress had been grazed by some animal. I found a porcupine hair amongst the watercress and porcupine tracks in the PAGE 72
snow nearby. Probably this porcupine had been varying its die of pine bark with watercress. I trai followed its trail a short distance and located it in a ponderosa tree, then shot it through the head. A mediumsized female porcupine. You may be sure that I worked up a good sweat dragging all this loot home through the snow and over the hills.
But one porcupine at a time is enough, so I didn't follow it. s/o The meat is now all cleaned and hanging up so I had a good productive day, which puts me in a good mood. As I have so far been able to get only small amounts of wild onions, I PAGE 72
was getting anxious for some variety of die, so this watercress and porcupine meat will be good for a change. Weather has mostly been chilly, cloud, and somewhat snowy lately.
March 30. Sunny this morning, for a change. What with my productive day yesterday, it made me feel so good. Cloudy again now,: though No matter. Had excellent lunch
Liver, watercress, bread, and have more good eating to look forward
April 2. My meat grinder had a washer of a hard substance similar to cardboard, which served as a "bearing." This washer began to break down and small fragments of it would go into the meat. I therefore made a washer out of wood to replace it.
Mountains. I will be happy if the new washer lasts longer than the old one. I have not ground any large quantity of meat with this grinder;
I do not use it often. It does not seem as if one can buy anything that lasts long; it is better to make things oneself, when possible.
Due to carrying very heavy knapsack too often offer from aproblem at the base of my neck. When I carried the knapsack for several hours, I suffered from a pain where the muscles are connected to the bone at the base of the neck.
It was getting to be a very serious problem, I think bE I've solved ORIGINAL b7C it now.
If you tie a rope around sitio del dolor the shoulders, location of the pain as shown in the drawing, the tension from the muscles is relieved, so I ca for several hours without the-p except, for a little bit sometimes. Unfortunately, since the rope has to be tight, it tends to stop the blood circulation and sometimes it causes pain where it crosses the collar bone. I therefore made a strap out of an old rag anda buckle out of steel pieces I cut from an old shovel I found PAGE 74
a long time ago. Since I have not received any training and I have had little experience in blacksmithing, I am glad that the buckle came out rather well; although it doesn't work as smoothly as I would like; but I think it would work more smoothly with a better strap. Apparently this strap prevents the collar bone pain but it does not help much with the circulation problem.
To counter this, I am making a short-sleeved shirt which will have pads where the strap goes under the arms. I hope this will help the problem greatly. Of course, as much as I use straps, etc., it won't be as if I don't have a problem; the strap will PAGE 74
always be unpleasant. I am now middle-aged and I cannot expect the health I had when I was young.
April 3. I went to the top of the hill, mainly for the exercise. But I found a here's track, followed it and found it very quickly.
But I spent two cartridges to kill it. It was one of those unexplainable cases where the shot appears to be very easy and, nevertheless, the bullet does not go where it is aimed.
Well, this does not worry me much since I have been shooting well for almost a year. I have killed 43 hares this winter, two with arrow and 41 with rifle. I have spent 42 cartridges to kill these 41.
Since I took a bad shot at a marmot last June, I have killed 5 blue partridges, 3 ruff partridges, 2 porcupines and one squirrel, in addition to the hares, which means I killed 51 animals without a bad shot. Even with the bad shots I took last spring, my shooting record is good; that is, better than
April 5. Snow, snow, snow so, since few small batches of onions I got some days ago, I haven't been getting any wild onions. My dried herbs ran out maybe 3 weeks ago, and I'm almost out of canned fruit. So today I went again to get watercress same place as last time. Evidently more than one porcupine is fond of watercress, for I found porcupine tracks by the spring again. Trailed the animal to a nearby tree.
Had to climb a neighboring tree to get
a clear shot at it. While dragging the porcupine home I found a rabbit track across my trail that I had didn't remember seeing on the way out. So I concluded it must be quite fresh, and after perhaps hour hunting I got the rabbit. It seems that at this time of year with shorter nights. and longer days it's not uncommon for rabbit to remain active in the early morning.
So again I had day and am in a good mood about it. Ground porcupine meat certainly is good eating.
April 8. The thermometer read 4 degrees at daybreak. I think this is the coldest I've seen it here this time of year.
Written later:) This morning, after chopping some firewood, I took a very pleasant short hike. I found PAGE 76
When taking I took my fingers away from my nose, there was blood on them! It alarmed me; I was afraid I had a nosebleed. But when I investigated I discovered my nose was fine and that actually the "blood" was a sticky liquid as red as arterial blood found in the ends of shoots. I think that this PAGE 76
bush would be a "choke. cherry" (choke cherry) but I am not absolutely sure, since it is more difficult to recognize bushes when they have no leaves.
April 22. I have killed 45 hares this winter, two with arrows and 43 with rifle; I spent 44 cartridges I do not think I will kill any more hares this year. I think spring has finally arrived. The snow is disappearing, rapidly.
April 26. Do you remember how Jesus was led to the countryside and fasted for forty days? Then, when he was very hungry, the devil came to him and told him--I you are the son of God, have these rocks turn into bread.--But Jesus resisted the PAGE 77 temptation. Then the devil placed him at the top of the temple and told him If you are the son of God, throw yourself down. Since angels were watching over him and they would hold him up. But Jesus resisted again. Then the devil took him to a high and showed him the kingdom of the world and told him that he would give them to him if he fell to the ground and worshipped him. But Jesus said Go away, Satan. And this was the end of the story according to good, simple Matthew. But it was not. The devil was clever and came back to Jesus and again said If you ws accept shame and dishonor, lashings, a thorn crown and death on the cross, you will save the human race because no man has more love than this; to sacrifice his life for his friends.
Were the above bad by-products of Christianity? Or was the character of Christianity the product of cultural impulses that would have made any religion a source of the above-mentioned bad guys?
April 30. In reference to what I wrote in this notebook around April 2: The pads attached to the shirt did not turn out well. I have therefore made thick tube of soft fabric that fit under PAGE 78 my arms and through which the strap passes. These make the strap more comfortable, but do not completely avoid the problem of stopping the blood circulation.
Tristan said: For two years I dwell in a forest, eating nothing save roots and herbs and
horses and all this hell of stupidity and cruelty! You can understand me, because those I have been locked up in a cage for a year anda half as if I were a rat, mistreated, tortured periodically. And what is worse, rejected, handled like a rag by vile men I, who am brave, strong and venomous enough to finish off all of them; am sentenced to deliver my venom for the preparation of antivenom serum! Can you not imagine what this means to my pride! Do you understand me?
May 31. Balsam root leaves Balsamorhiza are said to PAGE 79
But yesterday I tried the leaves and although they were very bitter, they were very tender and not bad to eat raw. But I would not want to eat too many of them at one time, because of their bitterness.
July 7. A month before his death, Napoleon Bonaparte said: I am glad I have no religion. It is a great consolation. I have no imaginary fears, no fear of the future."
one does not govern them, one shoots them." The context in which this quote was is given indicates that he was referring here to the futility of religion as a tool for controlling the masses. See The Napoleonic Revolution, by Robert Holtman, Lippencott, New York, 1967, 121.
July 25. Well, I-finally took the trip to Black that I had planned for a long time, and which I tried unsuccessfully two or three years ago. I did it in nine days*;
I would have been able to do it in eight days if I had wanted
part of my provisions which made my load lighter) and I had managed to arrange them more comfortable. I first went to my camp on the open, dry slope that faces McClellan Stream.
Since the weather seemed to be good when I was going to bed, I did not set up my shelter cloth. It rained during the night; I had to get up,
and I got wet nevertheless. The weather still looked bad in the morning; I was discouraged because of this and because of the difficulty in bringing my bundles and so I went to my most secret camp in the stream that flows from the west in McClellan.
had found it possible to carry my bundles with less difficulty than before, I felt encouraged and went to my high camp above McClellan. The next day I went to a stream without a name which originates from the high sierra near Nevada
I finally began to feel strong, my bundles were now less heavy, so I could carry them without much difficulty. I went a long distance and camped out immediately under a glacial "cirque," a very beautiful place that I saw on my first attempt to go to the black
Unfortunately, some stupid people had marked the trees with an axe along this beautiful stream. One tree had a notice of a lining claim; and there s/o were fresh horse tracks.-along the. stream The following day I rested. The following day I went to the black very high, 8338 feet. Also, I went to the dead man's creek valley sic]. s/o The tributary of the stream that originates at the glacial under the black towards the east.
This land is extremely beautiful and most of it is far from the roads; but unfortunately there is a very rough road which runs on top of the sierra from the almost to nevada i SEE NOTE BELOW and, of course, "four-wheel drive" vehicles have come by there because they have left their garbage cans, etc. Also, beyond this road is a Forest Service trail which goes up to the black and beyond it, and this trail had motorcycle tracks. I therefore returned to my camp both discouraged by these signs of invasion by civilization and inspired by the beauty of the land. It should be noted that there is maybe more b7C wild land there Treltere and in other places in the text, writer sometimes writes place names without initial capital. In addition, at times, he also appears to translated English names into Spanish. In such cases, when the names are back-translated into English, they may appear inexact. For example, earlier the author refers to "the dead man's creek valley." The actual geographical name might be a slightly different version of that. This note applies to other names including, the black nevada and "Willow Creek."
than in any other area reachable by foot from my cabin without crossing road number two hundred; but the jet planes went by almost non-stop while I was near the black Today I did not bring any water with me;
the day turned out to be hot and I was almost dying of thirst when I arrived at my camp. The following day I went to my high camp on McClellan.
It turned out to tter than the. day before, and.even though I had with me approximately half a canteen or a of water, I still suffered from more thirst and tiredness than the day before, so I rested two days; and then I came back home. When I reached the area in Fields stream where PAGE 83
the trees have been cut, I found almost rip huckleberries, and strawberries, and red twinberries, and almost rip soapberries and I had myself a feast. The red twinberries were especially plentiful and I ate them until I feared I would get sick. I arrived home at dusk.
Bug. 3. The following is taken from Revolution and. reac 85. ae by Geoffrey Bruun, Anvil "Books, Van" Nostrand, Princeton, 1958; 36. when society becomes industrialized it becomes more closely integrated and interdependent
Nationalists wanted their country powerful and socialists wanted their government strong and paternal; merchants and industrialists wanted the currency, tolls, transport systems, postage rates, weights and measures more consistent and uniform; the machines, to achieve their full potentialities for mass production, needed standardized formulas, standardized products, and standardized markets. All these influences, tending to promote political centralization, social control, and economic regimentation, might be detected in the pressures and programs of 1848-1852 The trend toward political, economic, and social integration, which was to produce such momentous experiments at regimentation in the 20th twentieth century, first announced itself clearly, first indicated prophetically the sources of its PAGE 84
strength, in the middle of the 19th century. Those sources were to be nationalism, industrialism, and socialism. Remark: ultimately, the sole source is industrialism, or rather technology, since nationalism and socialism apparently were products of social changes caused by the industrial revolution. 86. The socialist, in demanding that the State take over the abolishing poverty and providing work for all, prepared the way for the monolithic, centralized, totalitarian societies of the twentieth century. Unlimited responsibility, to be exercised effectively, must be sustained by unlimited authority.
Then, as now, the desire for power was disguised by the conviction of probably in the PAGE 84
Craftsmanship allows the creative impulse to be exercised, offering satisfaction to the individual by his mastery over raw materials.
In our modern mechanized era, most people suffer from a lack of opportunity to create, since almost everything we use comes to us and not even the skilled mechanic feels that his creativity and skill alone have produced a useful and attractive object" Among the Aztecs a prosperous man had a well-built house, PAGE 85 meticulously made and decorated clothing, carefully finished utensils and instruments and well-kept and productive fields, while a loser had a small and poor landholding. Nevertheless, barring natural disaster, the differences were mainly due to the capacity of men and their families to produce, with their own hands, the symbols of their wealth, or to exchange specialized products for goods of equivalent quality made by others.'':.The businessman.
the stream that flows into the McClellan Stream from the west. I had to take my things in my blanket, which I wrapped around my waist, and in some small bundles I tied to my belt, because I did not want to suffer my neck ailment when my shoulders hold up-a-lab-for some. tim Since I did not have too much to carry, it was not difficult.
When I got to my old camp in that place, I began to feel the tranquility of the forest. I did not care that the forest was cold and wet, with an inch of snow on the ground.
Since I was very hungry for meat, the following day I went looking for small game with my twenty-two rifle.
that area; but the dynamite blasts from the workers of a big company that axeteoking is looking for oil by seismic methods made me uncomfortable.
Near the top of the hill, north of the stream, I found fresh hare tracks.
I followed the tracks for one or two hours, but the hare was too skittish and although I saw it two or three bad times, I could not find a chance to shoot before losing the tracks. I. therefore felt a bit discouraged;
but while I was going downhill towards the camp, I happened to run into a blue partridge that flew and landed on a Douglas Since the bird appeared nervous and ready to fly away, I did not dare get near it and risked a shot from afar instead; and having fired very carefully, PAGE 86
I hit it and killed it. Having done this, I felt very happy and returned to camp gladly.
The following day I headed south, walking along the old mine trench that goes across the slope of the on top of McClellan, very high. The morning was very beautiful and I was very happy; but when I was going back towards the northsalong the high part of the I had to put up with the loud noise from the logging machinery in the Arroyo de Sauces (Willow Creek) valley. And I returned to my camp without being able to get more meat.
harried to get my rifle from camp and killed it. When I went to pick up the bird (a female), I startled another partridge (a male). It was not easy to find a good angle to shoot, but I did and killed the bird.
Afterwards, I walked a little bit downstream to enjoy the wonderful and dark beauty of the place, as well as to see if there were other partridges. There weren't any but I didn't care.) I wish I could express the wonderful mystery of that stream.
The following day I hiked uphill on the hillside opposite the camp. Luckily I was able to kill a blue partridge. I picked a few wild onions too. Nevertheless, after returning to camp, I decided to go back home because once in a while I could hear the noise from PAGE 87
machines in the Willow Creek valley the sound was not loud but weak but, nevertheless, it seemed like an evil dark cloud in the horizon that threaten threatened that beautiful, isolated place. And the threat was too real: I don't know when the Forest Service may decide to cut the trees there.
In spite of my,.brief visit, over there, I got home refreshed and relaxed and happy, bringing with me three birds to eat with my vegetables from my vegetable garden thefiestpaxtridge I had already eaten the the first partridge in my camp.)
That place is somewhat scared to me because it has not been touched much by the hands of man. When I am there for a couple of days, I always get partridges. It is the only place PAGE 88
I know where the blue partridges are still tame enough so that when you find them, you can generally get a chance to kill them with a twenty-two. I think sport hunters don't go into the area often.
November 19. Shortly after getting home, after getting the partridges as mentioned above, I went to pick pie I picked a large amount: it. for. winter. And shortly afterwards, it snowed a little so I was able to kill two hares not far from my cabin. Since then I have killed another five hares.
Although I have not finished my cellar, I have finished it enough to be able to transfer my vegetables to it. All together I planted 80 sugar the PAGE 88
amount of potatoes needed to fill a five-gallon bucket i-3/4 times but I had eaten almost half of these amounts of potatoes and beets before putting them in the cellar); and, aside from some parsnips that I had eaten before, I picked almost 600 parsnips to store in my cellar. These amounts of parsnips and beets don't include the very small and damaged ones I set aside to eat right away.
So with my vegetable, dried rhubarb, assorted dried herbs, etc., to supplement my store-bought food flour, rice, oats, corn flour, kidney beans and liam beans, dried milk, sugar, oil, about twelve or fifteen cans of tomatoes, and enough canned fruit to be able to eat
can every other day), I will eat well this winter, given as long as I can get enough wild game. I have enjoyed many delicious meals with wild game, vegetables, etc.
Last summer there was a large quantity of vacciniaceae. I went to pick them several times; the two main times I got two gallons each time;
four gallons all together. Each time, I ate one fresh gallon and dried the other gallon; so now I have these delicious berries to eat this coming winter. I spent a whole day picking.
two gallons the second time; on my way home at dusk, I ran into a small porcupine. It ran away and climbed a tree. Although there was not enough light for me to see PAGE 89
my rifle sight well, I risked a shot because I was very hungry for meat.
November 27. I would like to note that some of my parsnips are really huge. When I killed a couple of porcupines last winter, I buried their entrails in my vegetable garden; and in-the piaces two places where I buried them, the parsnips got to be enormous. Until now, my vegetables are keeping well in my cellar, without rotting, or drying, or sprouting. I still eat them with great enjoyment.
November 29. I forgot to mention that one day this fall, s/o when I went hunting behind the hill seth north of the cabin and I killed 3 hares, I heard the screams of the wild geese
that were flying south. I looked up and saw a great number of them; the sun was still low in the east and its ray met the geese in such a way that they looked silver. It was an extremely beautiful sight. They were not flying in a simple formation, but in a more complex something similar
A ORIGINAL FIGURE b7C Next day, later on, I heard the noise of a small plane and at the same time I saw a group of geese flying northwest. I asked myself why they were not flying south; but a short time later they again returned south; apparently they were frightened by the plane.
two I don't think they were the tracks of a single porcupine, since the one appeared to be the track of a young and small porcupine while the other one appeared to be the track of a bigger porcupine. I followed the track of the bigger one for a short distance and found the animal sleeping in a Douglas I didn't rifle but I returned with my twenty-two.
It was not very big, but not at all small.
The next day I went to the top of the hill south of the cabin, just to enjoy the outdoors. But there was a thin layer of fresh snow on top of the old snow, and I happened to find the tracks of a hare; I killed it. So now I have PAGE 91
plenty of meat. Also, I noticed the fresh tracks of another porcupine. I think the porcupine population is recovering--very good news for me.
So I am eating very well; the livers were and today, for example, I had a very delicious meal that consisted of cooked, ground meat with a potato and parsnips from my vegetable garden and dried and dried vaccinaceae dessert, boiled in-water, with two s/o tablespoon of sugar.
I feel sorry for the townspeople because they have to eat garbage instead of good food like mine.
December 9. The day before yesterday I went on top of the to hunt hares and killed two, even though conditions were not good, since the snow had falled the day before and not during the night. I did it in PAGE 91
spite of the conditions because my meat supplies were low and my die is poor without meat. Well, it was cold probably below zero, but I don't know for sure because my thermometer is in my cellar so I can watch the temperature there). When I tried to kill the first hare and I pulled the trigger, the cartridge did not explode, and I had to try it again. When I tried to kill the second hare, the cartridge failed again. I had to try four s/o cartridges before finding s/o one that exploded. You could see that the dent the firing pin made in the back part of the cartridges was not too deep. I assumed ice had formed inside: the mechanism preventing it from working properly. This had happened to me before when it was very cold. But this
time I did not manage to make the mechanism work well by moving the firing pin manually, as I s/o had before. When the mechanism was warm, it worked correctly. When it was cold again, s/o it worked poorly again. I finally s/o discovered the cause: I had put some very viscous oil on the mechanism.
Apparently when it is so cold, this oil turnedso viscous that it prevented the mechanism from working well. That is why I have disarmed the mechanism, cleaned it, and replaced the viscous oil with the light oil generally used for firearms.
December 22. Yesterday I went hare hunting. While I crossed the open area where the trees have been cut, before going up the hill south of the cabin, I found the tracks of a small porcupine, PAGE 92
I left it and climbed the hill. I discovered that the snow conditions were not as good for hunting as I had assumed, and also, the snow was so wet and sticky that it would have been very uncomfortable to walk with snowshoes. Nevertheless, I found a hare in a thicket on the north slope of the hill, I followed it, and.killed.it,.
although it was not easy to do. Before being able to kill the animal, I was almost completely drenched from the snow on the branches of bushes. I therefore returned home right away and on the my way I killed the porcupine. Unfortunately, when I removed its entrails, I found that its liver was so full of parasite cysts that I did not want to eat it;
A disappointment because for me the liver is the best part of the animal.
I threw it out and replaced it with a new mix. This also went bad. I waited a long while; then I boiled the jar in water and made another attempt with the sterilized jar. The same thing happened.
About two weeks ago I bought a packet of yeast at the store; I thought that maybe this yeast would be stronger than the bad even though my sourdough yeast hadn't been. And it was so: I am again eating bread made with yeast instead of "baking powder." It tastes the same as the store-bought bread.
It is very good but. good. the sourdough bread. The baking powder" bread is good to eat once in a while, but it is an inferior bread for everyday eating. And I am afraid that baking powder" s/o]. may not be good for your health if you eat too much of it.
Jan. 4. Last August I spent a few days camping out to the east of here. As I came up to the spring in what I call Diagonal Gulch, s/o there was a flock of raven there and I watched 2 of them for a while, though I didn't quite understand what they were doing.
After a while I went and walked right by a tree where one was sitting, and it didn't move. I sat down and watched it at close range, with no branches or anything in the way to obscured the view, as it sat there talking to itself in its strange language, as birds will do. In my experience it is quite unusual for raven to be so came, so I was very glad to have this opportunity of watching them at close range. I was probably only 15 or 20 feet from that one raven. Most of the time I was out, PAGE 94
spent I camped in my usual spot in the ravine off Diagonal a beautiful place of gentle breezes an tall pines. At first I was disappointed in not having any owls serenade me there as they have often done in the past; but finally one night I did hear an close by and another farther off. One night I heard a strange wail, not undulating like a coyote howl, but steady, with little change in pitch, only rising a little, gradually, then dropping a little at the end of the call. I have no idea what could have been making that sound. I am pretty sure it could have been a howling dog.
January 15. My potato supplies are almost gone, aside from the ones I keep to plant in the spring.
Today I ate almost the last ones. I still have enough potatoes for one lunch; I will save them until I get some meat, since today I ate my last piece of it. It has not snowed recently, so I have not been able to hunt hares easily. I still have plenty of parsnips and several sugar beets.
hunt hares. Since this last fall I have killed 21 hares, 19 with the rifle, the others I caught with traps. Well, yesterday I happened to find fresh signs of a squirrel's activities, even a burrow.
s/o but also by the neck in another trap, s/o which of course killed it so it did not suffer much. I therefore have a little bit of meat. I caught the squirrel at the mouth of the burrow.
January 23, 1983. It finally snowed a little. However, conditions were not suitable for hunting, since the snow fell at inconvenient times; in spite of this I went hun Stop the 2 since Hoedsd meat. Due to skill and particularly due to good luck, I managed to kill 3 hares, which made me very happy.
On the other hand, when I killed the first hare, I missed my first shot, and consequently lost the cartridge. I therefore had to use four cartridges all together to kill the three hares.
shooting record for hares is so good that I need not worry if I miss a shot once in a while from long distances.
Generally, I miss only one shot every winter hunting hares. This winter so far I have killed 24 hares, of which I caught two with a trap and killed 22 with the rifle, using 23 cartridges.
It snowed the 7th and 9th of Fbruary, but not during the night, so hunting conditions weren't good and I only caught one hare. The 7th of February I went to my cabin which is on a ravine that ends up at "Diagonal Gulch." I hunted February 8th and caught a hare. I got back home
February 9th and, on my way, a snow storm started. But it stopped before nighttime and since I was tired the next day, I didn't not want to hunt as there was not much chance of success.)
Last night a type of wind began, and this morning the new snow was soft and sticky. It would have been almost impossible to use snowshoes.
But I thought it might be possible to hunt because when.'the snow. melts slowly, it is really easy to distinguish the new tracks from the old ones. So I climbed the hill but did not bring my snowshoes. While I climbed the I. found three blue partridges.
to kill two of them, but this did not happen. Frustration. Nevertheless, on top of the I got to track and kill two hares. Also, on my way. back, I found a squirrel caught in a trap I had set s/o next to its burrow. So today was a good day for me. s/o Valentine's Day. Today I went evexthe on the top of th: to exercise, not expecting to find a chance to hunt.
But while I was walking across a narrow and long hill that goes down from Baldy, a partridge that flew off a tree I was passing startled me. I didn't have a chance to try to kill it; but a PAGE 97
I didn't find it hard to get into a good position to shoot and I killed it. Even though afew-times you rarely see a blue partridge in early winter, during most winters these birds begin to be seen in February during good weather;
February 15. I have been eating like a prince whenever I have meat. For example, the day before yesterday my lunch consisted of a stew with squirrel, hare, parsnips, a sugar beet, PAGE 98
A taste not to be Yesterday for lunch I had soup made of hare, internal organs of a partridge, parsnips, and dried herbs and roots, which was as good as the stew the day before, even though eenta it contained no sugar beets, since I ran out of them.
Feb. 16. dust hat best-rabbit hunting day I've ever had. I got seven, no less, killed with 7 perfect shots. All but one killed in my favorite rabbit-hunting ground--the west slope of the ridge that runs down southerly from the first peak east of Baldy.
Half an inch or so of snow fell about the middle of the night. When I got up just after dawn it was snowing again, so I almost decided PAGE 98
to hunt, since the morning snow threatened to cover the tracks made during the night; but then it stopped snowing before too much had fallen, so I went out. Conditions were excellent. The last 2 rabbit I got were sitting only 20 or 30 feet apart, and there were fresh tracks leading from one to the other.
Perhaps they'd been the mating season is on, since the males' balls are fully enlarged.
These rabbit all had a Od deal of fat on them had so fat around the kidney that I think it was very likely the fattest rabbit I've ever killed.
All of these rabbit were fairly good-sized none small. The scraps and internal organs not For rabbit, I mean. Of course they're not to be compared with porcupines.
March 4. The higher our station, the less is our freedom of action" speech attributed to Julius Caesar by Sallust, Conspiracy of Catiline.
March 8. Todayi picked the first wild onions of the year. I will enjoy eating them with my meal this afternoon.
cost me 34 and two with the trap. I do not think I can kill any more hares this year unless the weather changes s/o a lot) because spring has already arrived; great sections of the ground are free of snow. There has been very little snow or rain for a long time, and there probably won't snow nough now to hunt hares. But--who knows? In this region it is not possible to predict the weather. ay ay ee Later on: I caught another squirrel in the same place--two in one day. They must suffer a lot when they are caught this way unless I find them before they have been in the trap for a long time. I regret making these beautiful and innocent animals suffer, but I am very
hungry for meat. It looks like the best place to set the trap is where there is a great accumulation of flakes from the pine cones the squirrels eat. There are generally burrows in these places;
This morning a helicopter showed up over this ravine and kept flying from one side to the other nearby, making a great deal of noise. When I went to investigate, I found a "pick-up" truck stopped on the Humbug Contour Road.
There was no one with the truck, but
Even though there was not enough snow to follow the tracks, the prints nevertheless showed me in an indefinite way the direction the man had taken.
I found him and asked him in a friendly way, "What's going on?" He told me they were hunting eputwith tranquilizing darts to put, radio collars on them so. that. sh and Game Department could the movement of the Of course, I don't like this.
March 17. Last night s/o there was a small earthquake. First there was a light jot, then others even lighter ones; so that
the cabin was rocked gentle, like a crib, for a few seconds. Nevertheless, it gave me a strange feeling.
March 19. I caught another squirrel in the same area. All together I have caught seven squirrels this winter; all with steel traps. The weather has turned very cold. This morning there was a thin layer of snow on: I.went up the ravine to hunt for hares. There were too many pin prints; it looks like the snow fell during the early part of the night. Nevertheless, I was lucky enough to find a hare. It was sitting between the rocks above the narrow part of the ravine, south of it. I killed it. This pleases me very much, since it has been almost
iwets since I've had meat, for four squirrels I caught, ee have mentioned in these notes.
Vache 22. The cobble of old is shoe's the wineskin maker, a wine tailor because hemaks outfits for it to wear; the mule boy, gentleman of the road; the tavern-keeper, accountant. The executioner is called a member of justice, and the constable, servant;
madame, cuckolds, honorable men." Franci de Quevedo, El Mundo de denaro, The World from the Inside quoted by del Pomar, Aventuras sventuras de Francisco de Quevedo, Adventures and Misadventures of Francisco uevedo Editores Mexicanos Unidos, Mxico, 1973, page 136. It is also like that in modern society; and things go beyond the use of misleading names.
March 24. The last time I was in Helena, I bought a pair of shoes for at a "thrift. store." I tried them recently and discovered them to be almost useless on slope, at least when the grass and ground cover are frozen because the were so.
slippery that it was impossible to walk on the slope without falling.
I have therefore taken the soles from an old pair of rubber shoes and have steel attached them over the soles of the "new" shoes with staples I made from wire. I still do not know if itthi turnout-wet the shoes fixed this way will work out well because I haven't tried them.
dusk it snowed a lot, so that the ground was covered s/o with an s/o inch or more of snow. I therefore went hunting. While I was going up the hill I found the tracks of a partridge and I followed them. When I reached the top of the hill, I saw that the tracks ended under a Douglas Concluding that the bird was s/o I went around the tree until s/o I found it. But it-had-sat it was sitting in such a way that I had to climb another tree to find an adequate chance for shooting; then I killed it.
March 28. This morning there was a thin layer of snow, which fell yesterday just after nightfall. I went up the hill to hunt. Shkertiybelew-thesummit
Just before reaching the summit, I found the prints of a blue partridge. I followed the tracks and found the bird sitting on a very small tree;
but it appeared difficult to find an opportunity to shoot without s/o disturbing the foliage. I therefore made a mistake: I tried to find a good angle so I shoot, from a place almost exactly under the partridge. It got scared and flew away. Later on, thinking about this, I concluded that I probably would have been able to find another angle, good enough for a shot, some other way, anethex-way-without having to get close to the partridge. Well, it didn't matter much, since later on I found something better than a
a porcupine. s/o I found the tracks in my favorite hare-hunting area; I followed them and found the animal very quickly
and I killed it with my rifle. It was not very big; I speculate it could have about two and a half pounds of meat, including the internal organs.
March 30. Just had a most delicious meal of wild onions (raw); Ground porcupine meat, parsnips, and dandelions (all boiled together) and 2 spoon of
April 5: For about a week, more or less, I've been listening to a male ruff partridge make its drumming noise by beating its wings against a rotted tree trunk. I have only heard it once in a while, and only at night until this morning. This morning the bird began the drumming before dawn and continued later also. I took my rifle and went looking for it, following
sound. Sometimes I had to crawl, I mean, on my hands and knees) so the partridge wouldn't see me. This was not very pleasant, since there was still some snow on the ground, and the dry grass was covered with a little ice and my pants have holes in the knees.
It was a somewhat farther from my cabin.
Nevertheless, I finally found it without startling it and fortunately I found an angle to shoot from without having any small branches in-the way, and I killed it.
I'm always glad to kill a ruff partridge because they are s/o generally very difficult to hunt, since they are almost all quite skittish. When you hunt them by following the sound make made by the males when they beat
their wings against a fallen trunk, you need to drag yourself or crawl to prevent the bird from see seeing you; and it is not easy to do. After the bird sees man, it generally flies away and cannot be found again.
April 7. Yesterday the weather was beautiful, blue sky; temperature 20 degrees at daybreak. I went to the top of the. early, for pleasure.
and to hunt partridges. On a slope south of Baldy, where I have often found partridges, I steed stopped once ina while to listen and I very soon heard a blue partridge growl. The sound was very weak at first because the partridge was not close; but I was able to find it nevertheless; it was grunting ina tree. It was very difficult to find an adequate chance to shoot, because the small branches were in the way and the partridge continued to move often. But I finally got a good enough chance, s/o and I fired. The bird did not fall right away, instead it jumped from one branch to another, then it tried to fly but could not ry and fell to the ground. It was a big male and, I discovered later, it had a lot of fat.:: After plucking
bird, I went further because the morning was so beautiful. I picked some waterleaf on a hillside--the first sheets sprouts that were beginning to show. On another hillside, on a beautiful open forest, I picked wild onions. I started back home but discovered I had forgotten the stag horn I use to dig roots, and I had to return to look for it. I found it and I started for home again.
Almost at the bottom of a dry ravine, I startled a blue partridge that had been on the ground behind a tree. It flew off and landed on a tree. I found it but, no matter how much I tried, I couldn't find an adequate angle to shoot from; the little branches were in the way everywhere. I finally climbed a tree but I still could not find an opportunity to shoot, and while I was getting down, the bird flew away and. old not: again. Well, you can't always win. But I am sorry for the waste of time. I spent too much time looking for my horn and trying to get the second I had a late dinner and no lunch.
April 14. This morning the weather was very good, clear skies, the temperature was 20 degrees. I went up the hill to hunt
partridges. When I was going on top of the hill towards Baldy, I heard the large-flute-like sound they make;
I think the females make it. I crossed the ravine that goes down towards Humbug Countour Road and Stemple Pass Road, because it seemed the sound had come from the trees scattered on the other side of the ravine. At first I didn't hear anything else, but.after a while, TI heard a blue male partridge
although this sound was very weak; I followed it and soon after I saw the bird, which was walking on the ground.
I followed it; it flew off and landed on a tree; I got near and with little difficulty killed the bird with my rifle.
I discovered later that it had a great deal of fat. After plucking the partridge, I went further and picked some waterleaf, and a few
wild onions on a sun-lit hill; then I turned back north and going up Baldy, got a moderate amount of Lomatium and bitterroot to make a soup with partridge meat tomorrow. This morning s/o it was very quiet and pleasant; but now, in the afternoon, many jet planes are going
My bowels have been behaving very well for a long time; except that, twice during the last three or four weeks,.I have had diarrhea, of the same kind I usually had before, when I had bowel problems.
April 24. Yesterday I started an I went to my cabin near what I call the slanting Diagonal On the way, I killed a blue female partridge, on top of the hill south of the cabin mean the cabin where I usually live. For dinner I had soup made of internal organs, rice, and several herbs I got on the slope above the spring. April I have eaten three good soups mad made from partridge meat, rice, and fresh herbs. In this area there are plenty of edible herbs in certain treeless slope exposed to the sun.
When I started this excursion, the weather was good. But yesterday it rained a lot and towards nightfall the weather turned very cold,
one of the reasons for this excursion was to cut a bunch of firewood and leave it in the cabin for when I wish to stop here. Another reason was to relax and enjoy of this land.
But it is not easy to do it without enough clothes when it is cold and raining. When I am not very active, I wrap myself in blankets to keep my body heat. As a consequence, I sleep a lot. Nevertheless, I like being here.
Near the spring I saw something I do not like: someone has cut 2 or 3 fallen trunks with a chainsaw.
of snow on the ground. I went uphill to hunt for hares. I found some prints almost hidden by the snow that had fallen since daybreak.
I had slept two or three hours after daybreak.) When I began to follow them, it started snowing again, so I stopped trying to follow the tracks, assuming they would soon be completely hidden. Going down the hillside on the other side of: the: too far.
down and I had to go up through the gulch to reach my cabin. I then found another here's tracks. It was also almost hidden by the new snow, but when I followed for a short time, I soon found the hare hidden under a fallen trunk. I killed it
easily. Most of the hair had turned brown but the animal still had some white on the sides and head. April
28. Yesterday; to carry out another purpose for this excursion, I took a long I went up the hillside, s/o crossed the and went down the other hillside to reach an old abandoned mine. There I found what I was looking for: a short piece of pipe for my stove. Section; of the
pipe I had in this cabin has corroded to the point of uselessness. It was possible to use the stove with the other section of the pipe, but it was not good because that one just reached the roof level. Although the "new" piece of pipe is loudly and damage damaged, it will do for now. Everyday I have raw and cooked herbs in a good soup with meat
and rice. It is still cold. This morning I went hare hunting since it snowed last night. There were too many tracks but I was lucky and was able to kill a hare. Then I cut firewood. Now I am about to eat.
The soft sound of the wind in the pines increases the feeling of peace. On my way back to the cabin after killing the hare, in an open scattered Douglas found forest I found some herbs where the sun had mented the snow. I ate them raw.
April 29. The way I got that hare yesterday was as follows. I found the fresh tracks isolated from those of any other rabbit and followed them around for awhile until the tracks showed that the rabbit had heard me coming and had run. The tracks led into
an area criss-crossed with many fresh rabbit tracks. However, as the txae tracks I was following were now brand-new fresh, I was able to distinguish them, though not easily, from the other tracks. I followed them and they led me in a circle.
When I found that the rabbit was circling I decided to see if I could bamboozle him so I backtracked, going around the circle in the opposite direction. Sure enough, there was the bunny sitting right out in the open. Had a nice clean shot at him.
The notes I made during the excursion end here. Now I will tell what happened afterwards. The 29th of April the sky was clear and the weather was pleasant, and I moved my camp from the cabin to the next gluch to the west of the one where
the cabin is. I left a good pile of firewood in the cabin. After setting up my cover and making a bed of branches to protect myself from the wet floor, I ate and went to rest on the treeless hillside above the camp.
This hillside provided me with plenty s/o of herbs.) The view from this hillside is extremely beautiful. I enjoyed being there very much. After resting for a while: barefoot very quietly, from one side of the hill to the other and in the forest that borders it. I really like to walk slowly and silently through the wilderness.
extends towards the south. It was a magical morning; I was very sensitive to the silence, the beauty, and to the mystery of the wilderness. I was very happy. I found many blue partridges on this foothill. I killed two. To kill one of them, I had to crawl by very carefully to find a chance to shoot.
I had heard it growl and I followed the noise crawling. Later on, a helicopter.
By the way, this camp is on a beautiful ravine, with a beautiful, clear water stream. Up higher, the ravine is narrow and the slope is further below,
When the sun was setting towards the west, I went down to Diagonal Gulch and then up the ravine to the spring to get drinking water, without boiling it. I discovered that someone had made a path along Diagonal Gulch, cutting
Several trunks and logs that were not in the way for a man on foot or on horseback had beeri cut. So I think the path has dene been made so motorcycle can drive through Diagonal Gulch. Of course, this upset me very much so I decided to return home the following day.
Later on I felt better and decided to stay in my the weather was better the following day, and return home if it was bad. The following morning I felt very good in spite of what I had seen the previous afternoon and I wanted to stay in my camp. But the sky was so cloud that I thought it would no doubt rain a lot. I would have had
to spend most of the day wrapped in my blankets under me my shelter and I did not want to, because I felt like being active and I had a lot to do at home. So I returned home butt-vegrettedit but I later regretted it greatly because it actually did not rain! I wanted to enjoy that beautiful place more and I lost the chance to do it.
Has blown his whistle From the point of his bright yellow
Nimble is the yellow bee from cup to cup, He makes a great journey in the sun;
What I like best is this from the song of the hermit Marban to his brother Guaire, King of
I have a shieling in the wood, None knows it God: ae An ash-tree on the higher side, a hazel bush beyond, A huge old tree encompassed it Swarms of bees and chafers, little musicians of the wood, A gentle
Guaire's reply: Se I would give my glorious kingship To be in thy company, my Marban.
Sancho I want you to eat from off my plate, and drink of the same cup in which I drink: for the same may be said of knight-errantry which is said of love, that it makes all things equal.'
I give you a great many thanks, Sir, said but let me tell your worship that, provided I have victuals enough, I can eat as well, or better standing, and alone by myself, than if I were seated close by an emperor.
And, further, to tell you the truth, what I eat in my corner, without complications or ceremonies, though it were nothing but bread and an onion, relishes better th turkey at. other folks' tables, whe need chew leisurely, drink little, wipe my mouth often, neither sneeze nor cough when I have a mind, nor do other things, which toll he being alone and at liberty.' fo See Note below.
May 9. When I woke up this morning I discovered almost nine or ten inches of snow on the ground. It is still snowing--very wet and heavy snow. Such snow usually knocks down many trees Teredthis is a Literary translation from Don Quixote, Miguel de inter, translated by Charles Jarvis in 1742, ed. by Riley, published by Oxford University Press,
I hope the big pine near the cabin does not fall and crush it!
May 10. Yesterday the snow continued throughout the whole day and it was still snowing at nightfall. But apparently it did not snow a lot during the night.
On flat places there seems to be about 18 inches of snow--and dense snow. Many trees have been knocked down. But the snow has one advantage: it makes it possible to hunt hares. It is not possible to use snowshoes since the snow is so wet and sticky, but hunted I hunted near the cabin and I was able to killa
hare. I spent maybe an hour at it, and when I got s/o the hare I was so wet that I returned home and I did not try to find another hare. The hare was brown.
Therefore, I turned to alder but and the blackberry leaves, since they are higher than the snow level and so I can get them. The alder buds are better eating now than during the winter; they begin to open up a little. And And the very young blackberry leaves make a good salad, the ones that have not finished opening up; the ones that have are not as good.
I am not too sure about this, but I risked eating them nevertheless. They have not made me sick; se-that so, they are probably edible.
May 12. A few days ago I discovered that the sugar beets I left in the ground last fall to produce seeds this summer are dead and rotten. This surprises me because last fall these beets seemed to have endured the cold very well. After the harsh frosts that would freezer the leaves, the plants would recover very well and begin to grow again. It disappointment. I do not understand how
Last summer they did not seem inclined to produce stalks or flowers. Maybe they need long summers to produce seeds.
May 20. The day before yesterday and yesterday I had to go to Lincoln; I bought certain two dozen egg, three small cans of fish, and one can of beef stew Yesterday I.
made myself a very nice meal which consisted of three egg, corn flour, and chopped herbs--all these things mixed and cooked together to make a type of bread. s/o This morning I went to find out if the camp was ready to be dug. It was not and I therefore went further ahead and picked a bunch
While I was returning home, I found a blue female partridge and I was able to kill it. I later picked some more herbs and returned home. This partridge had a lot of fat and--something unusual--the fat was white. It is the first time I have ever seen this. Generally the fat of partridges is yellow, even though that of mammals is white. Of course, I am not going to eat this partridge until the day after tomorrow, when my egg run out.
May 22, 1983. My birthday. I'm now 41, alas. Previously I have only eaten white-aster leaves well along in the summer. But just recently I've
tried the young sprouts, and find that they make a very apetizing appetizing salad, just picked and eaten right where they grow. At this time of year I also eat dandelions, sweet nicely and other herbs that way. When my meal is ready, I just step outside and eat my salad right from the plants where they grow, then come back in and eat the the meal.
May 24. Yesterday I got up at daybreak and went up the wilderness trail, without a definite goal, to enjoy the beauty of the morning. I was very sensitive to the beauty of the forest, the singing of the birds, etc I crossed the Humbug Contour road and followed the road that leads to the first spring where there is watercress, partly because I felt like going in that direction, and partly
because I assumed it would be possible to hear a ruff partridge flapping, since I have seen ruff partridges in that ravine once in a while. And, in fact, I did hear a ruff partridge, although further below the area I assumed I could hear one. I took an hour or longer to find the bird and kill it. As usual, I had to drag myself along the ground to find a chance to shoot. After I had seen the bird and while I was carefully approaching it, this happened: The bird jumped from the trunk where it was beating its wings, and came towards me, stopping to pick at things here and there. Since it was coming very close to me, I tried to set myself and my rifle so
I could kill it, moving extremely slowly, of course. But, either because My presence made it nervous, or for another reason, the bird moved away again and very quickly returned to its trunk and began flapping again.
So, it looks like the male ruff partridges tend to have a bite occasionally while they beat their wings trunk. Shortly after, I killed the bird. I felt very happy, and even more when, on my way home, I discovered that the camp was already showing its blue flower buds, which allowed me to distinguish it from the death camp. I stopped to dig 1/4 pint of the roots I mean, 1/4 pint after they were cleaned); and with camas, 3 bitterroots,
plenty of various herbs, blue partridge meat, and about 1/8 cup of rice, I made myself a good soup for lunch. With a raw greens salad, it was a good lunch.
May 25. Have been having warm, sunny weather with few cloud for the last few days. It's like heaven after the long winter and the chilly spring that we've had until now. Day before yesterday, shortly before nightfall,.I went to my mailbox and found a package of food that my stupid mother had sent me. Although the almonds and the dried fruits that she sent me would have been useful, the package upset me very much because I have begged her repeatedly--a thousand times! not to send me any package without first getting my permission. Of course, she promises it, and soon after
sends me package again without asking me if I want them. This frustrated me more and more, and since I have (for certain reasons) little capacity to tolerate the frustration, I felt very bad and angry all day yesterday. I have had this problem with package I don't want for ten years or longer, and no matter how much I beg her not to send them to me,. and no matter how much she promises, she always does it again. Yesterday I went to Lincoln to send her her stupid package.
I went to gather camp. I got more than 1/2 pint; I took maybe 2 or 2 1/2 hours to do it. I had a really good soup with camas, four bitter roots, various herbs,
May 30. Evidently there is a pair of hawks of some relatively small species nesting in the woods south of the cabin; they make a mild fuss when I go in there. A hummingbird has been hanging around here lately. Just now as I sat in my doorway it came hovering around me, for no apparent motive other than curiosity. It came very close at one point it was within 3 or 4 inches of my knee, so I got a good look at it. How beautiful!
May 31. Who said The pen is mightier than the sword"?
what is said is meant to justify the sayer, isn't it? If Lord Lytton had been a swordsman instead of a writer, he might have put it down a little differently. From Boyd Colum, appearing in Great Falls Tribune May 31, 1983.
June 9. I received a letter from my parents saying they don't remember my ever telling them not to sent-send send me package without asking me first if I wanted them. And how many times have I told them! It is incredible! For example, I told him a few years ago and, some months after that, my father sent me a pair of shoes without first asking me if I wanted them. I complained to him and again insisted that I not be sent package without begin asked
first; I did this in spite of the fact that, in this case, the shoes were really useful; I used them until they were worn out and later on I made a pair of sandals from the soles which, unfortunately, were not good).
But I gave my parents the impression that I had burned the shoes, to discourage them from sending me more package without permission. It is true that this happened several years ago but I have told them many times not to send me package without permission. In the spring of 1982 they sent me one or two package without permission and I reminded them then (politely) not to send me package without asking me first.
a mistake to tell them politely since experience has taught me that they forget it or dismiss it when I tell them politely. Of course, they forget it or dismiss it anyway nevertheless after some time, but not as soon if I tell them in an offensive manner.
It is very probable that my father actually he has been complaining of losing his memory for about ten years.
that I know of. I do not think his memory has improved; maybe he has forgotten to complain! On the other hand, when my mother says, "I forgot," I do not think that she has really forgotten,
but that she has given in to her impulses and let herself be dominated.
Be that as it may, I cannot stand my parents anymore; not just because of these minor nuisances, but also because I remember very clearly the wrong I suffered from them during my adolescence.
Here is something I wrote on April 20th in a loose sheet and forgot to transfer it to these pages. This: morning I killed another ruff partridge. Several days ago I began to hear this partridge making its drumming noise not far from where I had heard the first partridge. I followed the sound and I was able to see the bird close up, but I could not shoot because of the sole
Then I removed the little branches that were in the way to make room to shoot and I placed some small dead trees so they would hide me when I again tried to kill this partridge. The next day I heard the bird flap its wings in the same place. I tried again to get close without being seen, but since t-wasn semewhatef-a hurry I was in somewhat of a hurry that morning, I startled the bird before I saw it. But today, using the small trees that I had placed, I was able to get close to the partridge and, moving very slowly,
The shot was not a good one; the bullet only reached the left wing and broke it.
I don't understand why--maybe a very small branch that I was not able to see was in the way. Anyway, I had to follow the bird through the thicket. If I had lost sight of it just once, I would have probably lost it forever. But I finally reached it and killed it. Tomorrow I will have a good soup. June 18. Words of a character in the Failure", by Jorge Ferretis, translated by Harry Kurz, in A World of Great Stories, Ed. by Hiram Haydn and John Cournos, Crown Publishers, New York, 1963, pp. 902-905: But all they've done is
to change their name! Formerly they were called Land ew owners, today they bear the title of Department Head, or Top Official, or Governor, or Minister They had s/o convinced me that we would get rid of our bosses by shooting them! What nonsense! There will always be men cut out to serve, and consequently others to order them around. It isn't the masters who make the servants, but exactly the opposite is true. The happiest nation will be the one which has the largest number of men taking orders only from themselves!"
course, the only societies that have ever existed in which men take orders only from themselves have. been very primitive ones, mainly the nomadic hunting-and-gathering societies. The idea of combining absence of control with a technologically advanced
an end in itself. The objects of civilization accumulated in infinite numbers, without humans will being able to prevent it, to the point where their effect becomes counterproductive for man, who no longer needing these objects, remains nevertheless subject to them, like an animal caught in the mesh of its own making. It has already happened with mechanical civilization, which upon growing beyong measure, rather than."
their creator, and, according to a logic of their own, they proceed in a development that cannot be governed, with results that no longer respond to the original intention. And thus s/o]. what represented a simple means destined intended to serve man, namely modern technology, upon proliferating exhorbitantly through an autonomous dynamism, has become. an: end in.
with mechanical civilization is that, growing disproportionately, instead of constituting a benefit for man it has become a heavy burden This book of Ramos first appeared in 1934, so that Ramos apparently anticipated Jacque Ellul by some 20 years in formulating what Ellul calls the principle of technical He also anticipated Ellul in noting. that technical means tend to become ends in themselves. Of course, Ellul discussed these ideas in much more detail.
We, men of color, must not waste the chance for treason against technology' by assimilating modern technology into the country, even though it may not be completely consistent
with our spirit, unless we want to be slaves to the igners in the future."
It is possible to give a very clear answer to this question. No society is ever created or guided in its development by means of an intelligent effort". The reason is that any human society, but, above all, any society.
with a highly developed technology, is an extremely complex system in which a vast number of factors are related in an intricate way. For this reason, if we try to guide the development of a society by modifying a certain factor, it is impossible to predict what the ultimate result of that modification will be. We may think we can predict the consequences,
but usually we will turn out to be wrong.
For instance, most intellectual would agree that it would be desirable that the average man should take a strong interest in serious music, painting, sculpture, literature, etc. But suppose it were possible by some means to give most people a serious interest in art. This would have to be associated with a significant. ae change in their attitude toward life, which would necessarily modify their habits of buying, selling, and working, the kinds of careers they choose and their way of pursuing those careers. This in turn would affect the economy in a way that we cannot predict, which in turn would affect foreign relations, the way in which people live, and
utilization of natural resources, which in turn would affect the social climate of the society, which in turn would affect etc. So that the final outcome would be a big question mark.
The idea of guiding the development of a society through an "intelligent effort" could be taken seriously only if there were a rigorous scientific theory allowing us to predict mathematically the ways in which the various aspects of society will affect one another.
In the absence of such a theory, our understanding of the ways in which societies develop must be purely empirical. This means that a new kind of society can be built only through trial and error.
trial and error in such a case, because as soon as one serious error is made the-whete everything is lost. Suppose for example that this generation decided to take certain measures so that our society would pursue goals that are balanced between limited technological progress and certain other objectives. If they made a mistake and the next generation turned out to be either too much inclined to technology or too much against technology in favor of the other objectives, then this mistake could never be rectified because by the time the mistake became apparent, the second generation would already be in control, and would not desire to what was a mistake from the point of view of the first generation.
Now let us suppose for the sake of argument that we knew what had to be done to create a balanced, partially technologized society. As we have just been at pains to demonstrate, there is no way that we can know this, but let us pretend for the moment that we do know it. Then how are we going to put our plan into effect?
That is, how are we going to get the mass of men to do what it is necessary for them to do in order to create the desired type of society? Anyone who believes that this can be accomplished by preaching to men or by appealing to their reason is hopelessly naive.
Most if not all men and this includes most intellectual and men of "culture" do not govern their daily behavior according to a philosophy or a plan for social betterment that they may have read or heard. Their behavior is directed toward certain goals that are deeply rotted in their psychology and are unaffected by preaching or by philosophical theories. Men select those ideologies or philosophies that.satisfy their: psychological needs the philosophy is chosen so as to conform to the individual's psychology rather than the other way around. Depending on the individual, the goals that govern behavior may or may not coincide with the goals that the individual person consciously believes himself to be pursuing. Also, it should
be understood that by "goals" we do not necessarily mean objectives that are systematic and organized.
Because technology offers an easy way out of difficulties it presents a continual temptation: And once we have
begun to use a technological means we become dependent on it and thereafter cannot readily dispense with it. So, to achieve a balance between technology and "human values" would require a permanent permanent act of self-restraint. Experience shows that most men will not exercise this self-restraint but will take the easy way out.
clear that this pattern of behavior cannot be changed by preaching or philosophizing. It could only be changed by appealing to men's passion.
But the concept of a balanced society combining limited technology with will arouse the passion of very few men. To put any limit at all on the tendency to technologize, men would have to be aroused against technology. They would: have to be made to hate it and see it as the source of all their troubles. Obviously this could not lead to a balance between and technology, but only to the destruction of the latter.
As to what Ramos says about certain primitive societies being immune to the temptation of technology, this is perfectly correct, but such societies cannot be partially technologized.
partially technologize such a society you first must break down the traditional behavior patterns that oppose a barrier to innovations. Once this has been done and the people have begun to take an interest in technological means, they will be subject to the same temptation as everyone else to continue technologizing without limit.
In any case, in almost every country of the worldtoday, at least the controlling elite is already under the spell of technology, so that what we have to deal with are societies that are already set on the technological track.
at two or three hundred feet from me. She stopped for a moment as though wondering where to go. She did not see or sense me. I stopped also and stayed as still as a statue, so I could see her. Then she trotted towards me on the trail. When she got near me, she began to walk more slowly and she diverted a little bit from the trail, but she continued to get near me until she stopped at ten.or twelve feet from me. She looked at me as if she were curious and not scared. It was hot, and it surprised me that she panted like a dog, except that her mouth was almost closed and her tongue did not hang out. Then she began to walk again with the intention of passing me and continuing on her way. But when she got to where
of Agriculture, Montana State University, Bozeman. I find no date on it, but it is recent): Five new insects were released as weed control agents in Montana during the: years:.
No doubt this method of killing weeds, as opposed to chemical methods, is what is considered "innocuous." Of course, the eenseg final consequences of any manipulation of nature
are extremely difficult to predict; but what most displeases me about this is that organized society dominates nature more all the time; and what is controlled by organized society cannot be considered nature. What attract me about nature is especially the fact that it is not controlled by society nor by any other organized system.
duly 1, What has ma oOmany since untold ages, stake their all on liberty is its intrinsic glamour, a fascination it has in itself, apart from all "practical" considerations. For only in countries where it reign can a man speak, live, and breath freely, owing obedience to no authority save God and the laws of the land. The man who asks of freedom anything other
than itself is born to be a slave.
Love of freedom is a privilege of noble minds which God has fitted to receive it, and it inspires them with a generous fexveux fervor.
August 23. During the last few years I have become more sensitive than previously to such small creatures as insects, spiders, worms, etc. I dislike to squash a bug merely because it is in my way or merely because I find it crawling on me. Often when I see a moh or other insect insect
fluttering against my window trying to get out I will open the window and let it through. This certainly is not a matter of morality or any notion of duty. It is just that I sympathize with their tiny struggles, which I suppose are as important to them as mine are to me. Of course I don't hesitate to squash an insect that is causing me real annoyance, as in the case of mosquitoes an biting lice, nor do I hesitate to throw grasshoppers into my soup as it boils. But those things are for a purpose I am eliminating something that is pestering me or I am supplementing my die. But I don't like to hurt these tiny creatures just for nothing.
From s/o the some features of nomadic life are so striking to any member of a sedentary society. The drama of herding and the idleness of a pastoral existence, where the herds satisfy the basic needs of man, and most of one's labor is expended on travelling and maintaining a minimum of personal comfort, the freedom, or necessity, of movement through avast, barren and beautiful landscape all these things assume assume a growing aesthetics and moral importance as one participates in nomadic life September 30. Shortly before nightfall, near my lower vegetable garden, I found
a flock of ruff partridges, which I have seen several times in these surroundings. I went to s/o get my rifle and I found an opportunity although not a good one) to try to kill one of them. When I fired, I thought the bullet had hit it but the partridge flew off and disappeared.
Well, such happen when I've gone without at for a long time or because I am too eager for meat and I therefore risk a shot without a good opportunity, or because I need to have practiced recently, so I'm out of practice. But as far as being prae out of practice,
I don't think it is a matter of marksmanship, but a matter of something psychological, the ability to judge when to risk a shot, or something like that.) So, it's natural for me to miss since I haven't killed any game for a long time although I have been buying some canned fish and some egg in Lincoln). And besides, I have been keeping myself busy with a very unpleasant task not directly. life ine,
the wilderness) wh: won't describe here, and that task tires me, and it frustrated me up to a certain point, and it therefore makes me somewhat prone to making errors. However, I assume that after that task is finished, things will go better for me.
five bucket of potatoes, i five five-gallon bucket each; or I mean a little less than five bucket. This is excluding the potatoes I saved to plant in the spring. So I think I'll be eating potatoes all winter; as long as they don't turn bad and sprout because my cellar is still not cold enough, since the temperature inside it is or However, I had to take out my potatoes now because some of the ones close to the surface of the soil had already gone bad due to the freezes. I must note that some that had grown near the surface had turned green at the highest point, and of course
green areas will have to be cut off before the potatoes are cooked. But even if ten percent is subtracted for the green areas, I have a lot of potatoes and I am very satisfied. My beets red, not sugar) did not yield very much this year. I finished eating them a long time ago.
November 26. During two recent mornings it had snowed and I spent around two hours looking for hares, but in one case the snow had fallen too early and in the other case too late so I was not successful. But yesterday morning the snow conditions were very good and I got a lot of meat--three hares and one ruff partridge. Which pleases me very much because I haven't had meat for a long time
and I've had to substitute kidney beans, an insufficient amount of canned fish, and egg or cheese once in a while.
But the day began badly. My first shot was a bad one. The bullet hit the head of the hare too much towards the front side, breaking its jaw without killing the animal. I had to follow it until I found another chance to shoot. So a cartridge was wasted.
But I had good success the rest of the day. After getting two hares, while I was following the tracks of the third, I happened to see a ruff partridge that
was sitting on the ground, very still. But by my mere looking at it for just a few seconds, it got nervous and then flew off. This coincides with what ruff partridges tend to do--I suppose they are pretty stupid, but just by looking at them, they seem to realize they have been discovered and fly off.
the ruff partridges after flying, land on the ground and disappear in the thickets. But when they land on a tree, you can often find an opportunity to kill them. And this is what happened this time.
I have been eating little bread and no rice. For the most part, I eat my potatoes and parsnips. Also, since money is scarce,
coming winter. Only 25 cans of tomatoes and 10 cans of cranberry sauce. But I have bought some dried fruit and I have plenty of rhubarb and dried berries
Nov. 28. The following passage is from a letter from my brother b7c the molimo ritual of the African Pygmies demanded something like an attitude of pretend' that was aware of itself as such. I think of modern religions as tending to become confused in this area, so that the alternative to the empirical interpretation of reality, in drawing near to the empirical, is only usurped by it, so that the religious ideas are transformed as absurd
empirical assertions, while losing their poetic life and suggestiveness. December 4. I haven't been able to find blades for my bowsaw in the stores for several years, except the ones with hardened tips (or teeth), so when they get dull, they cannot be sharpened. I used to buy the blades at the Coast to Coast Store, in Helena, where they only sell the blades now. I did not like these blades because, even though the tips were hardened, it did not seem to me that the blades stayed sharp longer than
And I also discovered that two of the blades would not cut straight no matter how much I tried to make them do so. Last spring, I wrote a letter to the Coast to Coast store courteously informing them of the shortcomings of the Skodko blades and suggesting they offer other type of blades. They responded very diligently, thinking me for my letter and telling me that they had forwarded my letter follow their buyer in Minneapolis. After a couple of weeks, I received another note from them, tneluding and a letter they had received from their buyer, in which he said,
After several years of use, the bow of a bowsaw always gets a little bit bent. It is then impossible to cut straight with the saw. I advise your client to buy a new saw." I had a lot of doubts regarding this opinion because not all of the blades had refused to cut straight--only two: And I was right.
When I installed one of them in my saw, I was able. to make a straight cut very
easily, even while cutting a very thick beam. I mean, while the blade was kept sharp. Of course, no blade cuts straight after it gets dull.
Many years ago I read that when young, Sigmund Freud had believed in numerology.
The 28th of October of this year, in astrologer's Sydney Omarr's column, I read: Carl Jung, the late Leo author and psychoanalyst, said he felt it was necessary to obtain the horoscope of any patient he was seriously attempting to aid. I'm not surprised that two of the three most prominey sychoanalysts believed in outlandish or dumb systems. Asssuming what I have read is correct. Sometimes what is read in newspapers is incorrect or misleading.) Even if psychoanalysis contains some accurate ideas, I think for the most part it's a somewhat mystical system
There is no way to prove with absolute certainty in all cases that they are not.
And I suppose that fans of psychoanalysis have a similar motive. I am referring to traditional psychoanalysis. I have read that nowadays psychiatry is rapidly developing. Perhaps modern psychoanalysis has become more logical and scientific.
December 21. The shortest day of the year, and also, at. daybreak it was twenty-four degrees below zero twenty-two according to my This is the lowest temperature I have experienced here, aside from the 30 degree below zero temperature that happened two or three years ago.
hunting for hares because the snow was almost perfect for it. But I had no success whatsoever: When I left the shelter of the ravine and crossed the flats I discovered it was windy. If it were not so cold, such a wind would not be considered strong, but a moderate wind is not easy for me to take when the thermometer is below zero, because the tip of my nose freezes too easily. I constantly have to take my hand out of my glove to make that no part of my face is freezing, especially the tip of my nose. Well, in the area where I began to hunt for hares, in a ravine somewhat lower than the hill summit, I think it was colder
than near the cabin--maybe twenty degrees below zero,--I can only conjecture--plus wind. I quickly found the tracks of a hare, but it turned out to be skittish and tried to run under the tangles of fallen trees in there. I was not able to hunt it efficiently because I quickly got tired due to the thick layer of soft snow, my heavy jacket began to cause-the pain. I get in my neck, I had to face down to keep my face away from the wind, and I had to warm my nose with my hand very frequently, which prevented me from looking at the tracks well and looking for the hare with my eyes.
then I gathered some firewood, because my woodbox was almost empty. This morning I gathered more firewood and cut it so today was a day of a lot of work for me. But I had a good parsnip and potato meal from me cellar, and meat from a hare I killed before and everything is okay.
December 24. Yesterday at daybreak it was 31-1/2 degrees: below. zero Since I need needed firewood, I went out to gather and cut it. The temperature went up quickly to 25 degrees below zero, but nevertheless I had to check my nose frequently or cover it with something scarf, mask, or the nose I made of squirrel fur many
I had no problems with my hands or feet, as long as I kept active. But while I was cutting firewood with the saw, since I did not move my feet too much, my toes tended to get too cold, so I had to warm them by walking vigorously, either in the cabin or outside. I spent all day, from dawn to dusk, gathering and cutting firewood, except for a brief period--perhaps 45 minutes when I warmed up: in front of the stove, I.
The temperatures mentioned here are corrected--they are two degrees less than what the thermometer said. Several years ago I put my thermometer in a mixture of water and ice and discovered that it said 34 degree,. so I correct it by subtracting two degrees even though the correction of the result is not accurate certain when the temperature differ a lot from 32 degrees.
I forgot to mention that for eight days (including today), the temperature has not gone up to zero, except one day when it reached
December 25. Nature has given me a Christmas gift: The temperature has gone up above zero.
December 28. It has turned make cold again. Early in the morning it was 21 degrees below zero. The thermometer didn't reach zero even ie: afternoon. I.do-not care too much except that have to spend more time chopping sinc one quickly gets used to the cold. This morning I gathered firewood that I am going to cut later, and I almost didn't feel or perceive the cold--but there was no wind, and I covered my nose to protect it.
December 30. I went hare hunting today, since the snow was good for it, since some new snow had fallen during the night. I only got two. Bad luck.
Hares do not appear to be very plentiful this winter, and besides, the wind surged and covered the prints with snow as it fell on the exposed areas, and made big chunks of snow fall from the trees. On the other hand, I was lucky enough to see two weasels. This is a rare thing, since seeing just one weasel is rare. Sometimes I have not-.
which turn white during winter. It is as if they were snow creatures whose home was the snow and the cold itself itself. I should add that I may have seen one weasel twice, and not two different weasels. I saw the second one at 3/4 of a mile (more or less) from the place where I saw the first one, but the weasels are so active that it would not be surprising for them to cross adlarge.territory.
January 12. Yesterday at daybreak there was a fresh thin layer of snow and I went hunting. I got two hares, and something infrequent this time of year) a blue partridge. The tracks of the first hare were difficult to follow, but I was able to do it
nevertheless. Later on, when I was climbing the first hill east of Baldy (from the south), I found the fresh tracks of a blue partridge. When I followed them for a short distance, I Saw where they ended, so the bird must have flown off. When I checked the nearby trees, I saw the head of the hidden by the trunk of the pine where it was sitting, except that it was stretching its head to look at me.
I walked around until I found a good angle to shoot from. I felt sorry for the poor stupid stupid bird but I need the meat. It was a big one. A male.
Thrymheim, and she goes about a great deal on ski and with her bow and arrow shoots wild animals. She is called Snow-shoe goddess, or Snow-shoe divinity." Snorri Sturluson, The Prose Edda, Translated by Jean I.
January 16. There was some fresh snow this morning. I went up the to hunt hares. It was even colder and windier up there than what I had assumed.
Hares appear to be very scarce this winter, and I don't find any porcupines either.
But I was able to kill a hare, and on my way back home, I killed a squirrel.
00: San Francisco Specimens received: December 12, 1994 Reference: Evidence Receipts dated December 12, 1994 and December 15, 1994, Communications dated December 12, 1994, December 15, 1994 and December 20, 1994 2 Newark 2 Department of Justice Mr. Richard (Hand Delivered) (over) This Report Is Furnished For-@fftctatGse-Onhy
Specimens and when reassembled comprised an area of packaging approximately nine and one half 1/2) by nine and one half 1/2) inches (laid out flat). These items contain red, white and blue lined white background ippi i i address to Thomas Mosser, 15 Aspen Dr. Caldwell, NO b7C A "PRIORITY MAIL" and a PRIORITY. stamped impressions; three USA twenty-five cent American Flag with cloud stamps from a four ONE DOLLAR UNITED STATES EUGENE stamps from a coil and three postal cancellation stamp impressions the information on which could best be deciphered as SAN FRANCISCO, CA DEC 3
On December 27, 1994, the FBI Lab provided the results of forensic examinations conducted to date on Device ae
A summary of the Historical and Bi i information supplied by the USPS library attached as is a description of the stamp placement on the parcel.
On April 204 EE reviewed by reviewed 8 At that time serial throt ne Were reviewed, (Rev. 11-17-88) FBI
At the meeting of December 30, 1978, in the Hilton Hotel, New York, 23 theater and academic professionals met to formalize the organization of the Eugene O'Neill Society. Officers were elected and a Board of Directors named to serve for one year on an interim basis, during which time the Society will be formally incorporated in the State of Rhode Island and a set of Bylaws will be drawn up. The Society will then adopt the Bylaws and will hold its next meeting for the election of permanent officers and board at the meetings in San Francisco in December of 1979.
MEMGERSHIE DIRECT EUGENE BE 2'NEILEL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIP DIRECTORY