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Mel Tappan also put out some newsletters that are "out there, somewhere".
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They were called "Personal Survival Letter" or PSLs.
People whine about paying $5. for some crappy survival book now, can you imagine paying $125. a year back in the late 70's for less than 10 page printed newsletter?
Yet people did.
PSL wasn't bad, only was about 20-30 of them IIRC . And Karl Hess later did a similar thing, albeit cheaper and a little more info for about another 5 years. Then some dude in Oregon picked it up for a while as well.
Pretty sure all of the PSLs are out there in digital form. I have most in print, missing a handful. Used to collect a lot of the earlier survivalist info.
Tappan, some Don guy, Kurt Saxon were some of the old skewl survivalists but it goes back further than that as well. "Get ye to the high mountains" is a great 1950's book as well.
Guys today that some new people venerate have just for the most part regurgitated this old info, calling it new things and trying to claim it as their own, which is lame as hell. Just like the "American redoubt" concept is just a re-hashing of Tri States philosophy. But newer people (2006'ish on) don't know any better and lick the chrome off the bumper...
Vanity of vanity, all is vanity and there really is nothing new under the sun! But hucksters came along to an unsuspecting new crowd, re name ideas and claim them as their own- and new people love it...