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Hi Lynn
I remember reading a post by you saying something similar last year
it struck a chord with me
you said you looked out over such deep vast wilderness and realized we don't know what is in there
After spending my whole life in NYC before I moved to Tucson
your post gave me my first glimpse of how little we prolly know 'bout what takes place in depths of wilderness
I read a book 'bout a man from Stone Age civilization who arrived out of that Northern wilderness when he was last one left in his tribe back in 1930s
Love, Palo

Palo, you are thinking of 'Ishi', I think...he was a Native American, who along with a few other members of his tribe, resisted being put on reservations, and he and I think his mother and sister, and maybe one or two other tribe members struck out on their own, trying to make it in the wilderness during the 1920s I think....it was a difficult trek, and eventually all the other tribe members died, and Ishi was left alone...he was scared and hungry and thirsty and wandered into some town, and the local people did not know what to make of him...

So they locked him up in their jail, and because he looked to strange to them, they called to the University of California, at Berkley, and they sent down an anthropologist to have a look at this man...he took the man back with him to the university to study....The anthropologist got the museum and university to allow lodgings for Ishi...he lived either in the museum or in the library, at least somewhere at the university....

Ishi eventually learned English, and he enable the anthropologists to make a record of his own native tongue...he became quite well known during this time, and many different famous people came to visit him...

Eventually he died, when I think he was either in his late 40s or early 50s, I think...I think he died either of TB, or pneumonia, something for which he, being a Native american, had no natural immunity...

They made a movie out of the book written by the anthropologist, who was played by John Voight...Ishi was played by an actor name Graham Greene, the anthropologists wife was played by Ann Archer, and a physician who became interested in Ishi, was play by David Ogden Steirs of 'Mash' fame...I believe the movie was based on the book written by the anthropologist...I think his name was Dr. Kroeber, tho I could be mistaken about that...I was a fascinating story to me...