Lewis Wetzel: Wilderness as Identity

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Lewis Wetzel was not shaped by the wilderness — he became it.
This narrated reflection explores the life of one of early America’s most legendary frontiersmen, a man whose identity was carved not by society but by the forest, the rifle, and the relentless demand for survival.

Wetzel walked the borderlands between settlement and chaos, where danger was constant and only skill, instinct, and endurance kept a man alive.
He was both feared and revered, a figure who embodied the raw, untamed spirit of the frontier.

This is not just a story of a man — it is a story of what the wilderness creates when it chooses one of its own.