Wolf Brother

About the Book

Bush pilot, Dan Thompson makes an emergency landing on an unnamed lake in British Columbia. After draining the gas line, he takes a test flight to check the motor, leaving Ben James and his grandfather behind to fish. Dan never returns, and

Ben, a 14 year old Tlingit Indian,  and his grandfather are stranded in the wilderness.  After purifying himself by the traditional washing, grandfather sets out to forage for food. While setting rabbit snares, they jump a grizzly.

Ben can feel the danger and hate in the the  animal. Grandfather talks to the raging bear in Tlingit explaining to him that they did not mean to trespass. They manage to escape, but grandfather had felt of the bear’s spirit and it was angry and meant to harm them.

The following day, the old man died of a stroke, leaving  Ben on his own.  Giving up on rescue, Ben starts down the valley to find shelter and food, with his grandfather’s warning playing in his mind:“I felt of his spirit and it was angry. He means us harm.”

About the Author

Ed Ferrell lives in Juneau, Alaska, where he spends his retirement researching and writing about the North Country. He moved to Alaska in the late 1940s and except for time “Outside” for college, has made his home in Alaska. In his numerous trips into the Alaskan and Canadian back country, he swapped stories with big game guides, prospectors, bush pilots, hunters, commercial fishermen, and homesteaders. Many of them have mushed over The Long Trail. From this background, he has written several books, including Frontier Justice, The Dangerous North, Strange Stories of Alaska and the Yukon, and his first novel, Wolf Brother.