THE AUTHOR WISHES TO thank Deputy Fire Marshal Donald C. Cuthbert of the Alaska Department of Public Safety for generously sharing his off-duty time to explain the ins and outs of arson investigation in rural Alaska.
The author also extends his deepest gratitude to Kent Sturgis, who gave the book a professional edit.
“Earth and the Great Weather,” the song in Chapter Twelve, was recorded by the Danish explorer Knud Rasmussen during his Fifth Thule Expedition early in the last century and attributed to an Eskimo woman named Uvavnuk. It is sometimes known as the “Song of Uvavnuk.”