This is a short film that features an interview with Sylvan Hart (aka Buckskin Bill)…a man who spent a good portion of his life living on the Salmon River in an area of Idaho called the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness.

I didn’t know anything about this film….but found it this morning on YouTube.

Sylvan Hart was a pretty amazing character….living in an area of Idaho that’s as remote as you can get in the lower 48….making almost everything he needed to survive in a difficult environment.

I knew a little about Sylvan Hart through a book by Harold Peterson called “The Last of the Mountain Men”.

Here’s the Amazon link… The Last of the Mountain Men

It looks like it might only be available for purchase as a used book or NOS at this point, though.

Check out the lady in the movie, too….Frances Wisner.

I wasn’t familiar with her but I’ll bet her story is pretty darn interesting.

I don’t think that there is such a thing as “the last mountain man”.

People are out there doing it still….it’s just that some of them don’t want to be on your television.

Some people just do.