Updated 3/16/2021 5:45 AM Before Christmas 1979, DuPage County lawyer Ron Nosek picked up the book his wife, Sue, bought as a present for another relative. "The Tracker," by Tom Brown Jr., tells how a boy growing up in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey learned to "live comfortably in the natural world" from an elderly man who went by the name Stalking Wolf, says Nosek, who couldn't put the book down. As a kid growing up in Berwyn, Nosek had spent a lot of time outside and was intrigued by the ability to exist in the natural world and get by "only with what nature provided."