He only payed $20 a year for his shack http://edricketts.stanford.edu/Campbell_Ricketts3.pdf http://edricketts.stanford.edu/Campbell_Ricketts3.pdf and also went

He only payed $20 a year for his shack http://edricketts.stanford.edu/Campbell_Ricketts3.pdf http://edricketts.stanford.edu/Campbell_Ricketts3.pdf and also went up to expeditions in Alaska during this time which only cost 25 cents per day. I guess you could do this now, find a rural trailer somewhere and live as cheap as possible to read all day but not with school debt/insurance obligations.