THE FIRST I EVER heard of the Nahanni River and…
THE WIND BLEW COLD off the Great Slave Lake, even…
I THOUGHT WE’D HIT it off real well, but the…
WITH DAYLIGHT FALLING off by more than ten minutes a…
RAYMOND’S EYES TOOK in a glimpse of me, and then…
“THIS IS CESSNA 6–7-Z-RAY calling Fort Simpson. Do you read?
CLINT TRIED TO RESTART the engine. “Charge on the battery’s…
THE OLD MAN ALREADY had a fire going. It brought…
IN THE MORNING Johnny Raven built a larger fire outside…
WE WASTED NO MORE time talking; we never even agreed…
IT HAD BEEN ALL we could do to get the…
THE OLD MAN STOOD on the top of the bank,…
A HALF-CHINOOK SWEPT briefly into the valley, raising the temperature…
“‘MY NAME IS Mary Canadien,’” Raymond read aloud. “‘I am…
WE STAYED INSIDE the cabin the next day. I was…
IT WAS ONE HUNDRED and ten degrees warmer inside the…
THE RAM WAS STANDING amid the skulls and skeletons of…
A RAVEN SHOWED UP within minutes, then two, three, four…
“WINTER BEAR,” RAYMOND said, his voice hushed and awed. The…
AT LAST THE FIRE in the stove was backing off…
DON’T THINK ABOUT how far a hundred miles is, I…
MY FATHER AND I flew upstream over the frozen Liard…