Larry Erickson has lived in the wilderness since he was a young teenager and has over sixty seven years of wilderness living experience during which time he was a trapper, dog sled musher, guide-outfitter, packer, faller, horse dentist, and miner. Since his wife, Ingrid, passed away in 2021, Larry has lived alone in Manson Creek, B. C., from where he still keeps tabs on over twenty horses. June Wood is the author of Nechako Country: In the Footsteps of Bert Irvine (2007, Heritage House) and Home to the Nechako: The River and the Land (2013, Heritage House).