The trouble started over a mongrel dog, small, mostly black,…
“I believe she’s cooked, Jason.”
Ethan may have been itching to join the excitement of…
After the fight, Ethan had as many friends as a…
Maybe it was Abraham saying “sweetheart” that set my heart…
The entire business district of Dawson City lay in ruins.…
I worked the endless daylight hours of May as a…
Dawson’s milling crowds were anxious to leave town. At any…
The prize money for the North American Trading Company’s Second…
Jamie stepped off the gangplank and we embraced. I kissed…
Jamie slept through the arrival of four sternwheelers the following…
Burnt Paw shook himself out, ran atop the gear to…
In every nerve of my body I knew this might…
I dropped to my knees and shook Jamie by the…
“You said we could afford to loaf a little,” came…
The island proved to be hundreds of yards wide. The…
A path led onto a sunny rise overlooking the river,…
From the southeast, the large and silty Tanana River entered…
When at last we couldn’t rope the canoe through the…
It wasn’t an hour before a bit of motion between…
Atop a long spit, the village momentarily passed from view…
In less than an hour’s time we had our kayak.…
As three quick blasts came from the sternwheeler’s steam whistle,…
During our stay in Nome, Jamie and I took rooms…