They didn't live successfully from a backpack. The Native American Indians joined together in tribes, the early settlers built forts and later towns. Even in medieval times people gathered around a castle and its king. There were very very few who lived alone few enough that they became legends.
There were Japanese soldiers from WWII who lived for many years after the war alone in the jungle.
Hiroo Onoda lasted for 29 years.
I think the hardest thing for most people to deal with would be loneliness. But for someone like me, that wouldn't be hard at all. I'm already used to it.
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