The book "into the country" covers people homesteading and gold prospecting in the 70s in Alaska. They would live off a bag of rice and a bag of corn and whate

The book "into the country" covers people homesteading and gold prospecting in the 70s in Alaska. They would live off a bag of rice and a bag of corn and whatever they could hunt or grow for the year, then once a year, get big bag of rice and corn. It sounded, well, unpleasant, but exciting. But it's exciting because you are on the edge of survival. cheap land colorado is a book about similar efforts today by people in CO. Again, not pleasant day to day. Living on the edge makes for great stories, but tough conditions.