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Chris McCandless is born.
Chris McCandless was born in El Segundo, California. -
Chris McCandless enrolls at Emory University
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Chris McCandless Graduates from Emory College
After graduating, he donated his college savings of $24,000 to OXFAM and adopted a vagabond lifestyle, working when necessary as a restaurant food preparer and farmhand. -
Chris McCandless burns his money
Chris McCandless burns his money in Houston, Texas. -
Flash Flood in Detrital Wash, Arizona.
Chris McCandless's car got taken by a flash flood. -
Chris McCandless finds Jan Burres and Bob
Jan Burres and Bob Itinerant couple who meets McCandless in the summer of 1990 when he is searching for edible berries alongside U.S. Highway 101. Estranged from her own son, Jan takes a special interest in McCandless. -
Chris McCandless meets Wayne Westerberg.
Wayne Westerberg is a grain elevator operator who picks up the broke and hungry hitchhiker. -
Chris McCandless goes to South Dakota with Wayne Westerberg.
Chris worked with Wayne on his crew. After three days of working on Westerberg's crew, Wayne offers Chris a job if he ever needs one in the future. -
Chris McCandless meets Ron Franz.
Ron Franz is a Vietnam veteran and leatherworker who lives in Salton City, California. Eighty years old, muscular and tall, Franz is a recovered alcoholic and a widowed father who lost his son to a drunk driving accident while he was overseas. -
Ron drives Chris to Grand Junction, Colorado.
Chris promises Ron that this is where he would meet him again after his trip. This was the last time they saw each other. -
Chris McCandless meets Gaylord Stuckey
McCandless meets Gaylord Stuckey, a sixty-three-year-old man who is driving an RV to a dealership in Fairbanks. -
Gaylord drives Chris to Liard River British Columbia
Gaylord drove Chris as much as he could because of Gaylord's job. -
Chris McCandless arrives in Fairbanks.
Chris McCandless stays in Fairbanks for three days, where he studied in a library for help to survive in the wild. -
Chris McCandless meets Jim Gallien
Jim Gallien is an electrician who picked up the hitchhiking Chris McCandless and gave him a ride to the Stampede Trail, where McCandless walked into the wilderness. -
Chris McCandless arrives in Fairbanks.
The trail is only used in the summer and winter. Two big rivers are surrounding it and makes it impossible to cross over during other seasons. Once Chris made it he found a Fairbanks city transit bus. Chris spent the next five months on the bus. He survived using the knowledge he learned at the library in Fairbanks. -
Chris McCandless Dies
Chris McCandless eventually dies after just surviving off of small animals and plants. The last words Chris McCandless wrote were “I have had a happy life and thank the Lord. Goodbye and may God bless all!” -
Chris McCandless is found dead
McCandless's badly decomposed body was found Sept. 6 by hunters on the sparsely traveled Stampede Trail just outside Denali National Park, 100 miles southwest of Fairbanks
