ISBN: 0-7434-5313-1. Copyright 2004. Softcover.  303 pages.  Dimensions 5.5" x 8.5" x 1". 14 B&W photos.

From the back cover: The Final Frontiersman is an icily gripping, intimate profile that stands up well beside Krakauer's classic, and it stands too, as a kind of testament to the rough beauty of improbably wild dreams.  - Men's Journal

Hundreds of hardy people have tried to carve a living in the Alaskan bush, but few hve succeeded as consistently as Heimo Korth.  Originally from Wisconsin, Heimo traveled to the Arctic wilderness in his feverous twenties.  Now, more than three decades later, Heimo lives with his wife and two daughters approximately 200 miles from civilization - a sustainable, nomadic life bounded by the migrating caribou, the dangers of swollen rivers, and by the very exigencies of daily existence.

In the Final Frontiersman, Heimo's cousin James Campbell chronicles the Korth family's amazing experience, their adventures, and the tragedy that continues to shape their lives.  With a deft voice and in spectacular, at times unimaginable detail, Campbell invites us into Heimo's heartland and home.  The Korths wait patiently for a small plane to deliver their provisions, listen to distant chatter on the radio, and go sledding at -44 below zero - all the while cultivating their hard-learned survival skills that stand between them and a terrible fate.

Awe-inspiring and memorable, The Final Frontiersman reads like a  rustic version of the American Dream and reveals for the first time a life undreamed by most of us: amid encroaching environmental pressures, apart from the herd, and alone in a stunning wilderness that for now, at least, remains the final frontier.

"What makes this more than just a profile of a fascinating personality is Campbell's deft weaving of Alaskan history into Korth's tale."  - Publishers Weekly

"[One of] the greatest life-or-death tales ever told." - Esquire

"Campbell makes the case that an increasingly urban American - and its desires for oil, for timber, for neat and packaged wilderness - is killing, and worse, forgetting the frontier we once worshiped." - The New York Times

Table of Contents

Prologue
Introduction

1 - Winter
2 - Growing Up Wild
3 - The Final Frontier
4 - The Big Woods
5 - On the Coleen
6 - Spring
7 - Back to Nature Boys
8 - Hunting the Ice Whale
9 - A Family of His Own
10 - Summer
11 - Closing of the Frontier
12 - Fall
13 - A Way of Life

Selected Bibliography