Thought Mel Tappan was the GF of preppers (survivalists back in the 80s), but he was a student/cohort of Stevens.
Mel passed in 1980, “...still living...” from the article is correct. He used to type articles in G&A, SoF, and I think Backpacking magazines.
“...it’s not if, but how much one should be paranoid...”
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“...but he was a student/cohort of Stevens.”
OOPS, wrong Stevens....Don Stephens.
Emily Litella lives!
Chagrined....
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I thought it was James Wesley, Rawles but I see both he and Mel Tappan have wikipedia pages but Tappan was a lot older so I guess that would make him GF.
Never heard of this James Talmage Stevens and he doesn’t have a wiki page so I guess he’s not that popular. In fact, a general web search only shows that he wrote a book.