In Hogwild: A Back-to-the-Land Saga, readers learn that the term "Hogwild" was an outrageous ideology--that a loosely organized confederation of like-minded individuals could carve out a simple country lifestyle from an enclave of mountain land, raise their own crops, bring up their children in peace and serenity, and build their own free-spirited houses with logs timbered from the local forest in an environmentally conservative fashion. It...