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Alexander Mackenzie. (National Gallery of Canada)
Roderic Mackenzie.
Hendrick, the Mohawk Chief. (Courtesy of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University)
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Mishipeshu, the horned serpent that lives at the bottom of Lake Superior.
Great Slave Lake, as drawn by Samuel Hearne.
Peter Pond’s Beaver Club Medal. (Peter Pond Society)
Peter Pond’s map in The Gentleman’s Magazine. (Library of Congress)
Typical map of the day, 1780. Note the Straits of Anian and Sea of the West.
Barge traffic on the Mackenzie River today.
Shooting the Rapids, 1879, by Frances Anne Hopkins.
John and I scout the rapid at Molly’s Nipple on the Slave River. (Leif Anderson)
David and I set out in Hay River.
Jeremy hates bugs.
Coming into the Camsell Bend.
Wilfred Jackson at home in Fort Good Hope.
Church of Our Lady of Good Hope.
“Bigfoot” grizzly track near the Thunder River.
An unexpected hut on Garry Island.
Senny and I celebrate success at Garry Island.
Senny, Jeremy, me, David, and Landon. The only time all of us were ever together, at a Christmas party in Atlantic City, December 2016.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Brian Castner is a former explosive ordnance disposal officer who received a Bronze Star for his service in the Iraq War. He is the author of two books, The Long Walk (2012) and All the Ways We Kill and Die (2016), and the coeditor of the anthology The Road Ahead (2017). His journalism and essays have appeared in Esquire, Wired, Vice, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and other publications. The Long Walk was adapted into an opera that has been performed at prestigious venues nationwide.
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