Author Archives: Tricia Brown

-20 IN FAIRBANKS But the temps didn’t seem to bother Coco at all. She and her handler Opal Welton came over to my sister’s place for a visit, and we took turns taking pictures, of course! Coco started digging in the … Continue reading →

Alaskan Night Before Christmas (or how one selfish caribou almost wrecked Christmas for all of us!) If you’ve read this Christmas story, you know about how Kotzebue the Caribou lands on the naughty list—for a short time, at least—for making … Continue reading →

Coming Soon! I’ve been busy lately reading page proofs on a couple of new books due out this Spring. The first is a story that captured my interest years ago when I wrote about a special dog named Patsy Ann … Continue reading →

Summer’s far from over, but as for me, it’s time to settle in and get serious about writing. Researching a travel book like The World-Famous Alaska Highway is a lot of fun, then it’s time to pull over, apply the … Continue reading →

Every year, dozens of people fail to really understand this sign at Haines Junction, Yukon Territory. Either way leads to Alaska, but unless you take a right turn at this crossroads, you’ll end up in the coastal community of Haines, … Continue reading →

The new green shoots along the Alaska Highway are an attractive nuisance–for bears emerging from hibernation. This is the fresh salad that the bears are craving. Yesterday we saw about eight black bears, two grizzlies, and another eight or ten … Continue reading →

I liked hanging around the “World-Famous Alaska Highway” sign in Dawson Creek, even at this time of year when tourist traffic is still sparse. Within minutes we met an Alberta man who’d left his job and was encouraged by his … Continue reading →

ALBERTA’S OLD WEST We’ve been driving through a land that’s so foreign to us, it feels as if we’re extras in a Hollywood Western. Today we explored Lethbridge, Alberta, the home of Fort Whoop-Up, where the Yankee whiskey traders made … Continue reading →

ROADIES Perry and I are on the road again to update my research for The World-Famous Alaska Highway: A Guide to the ALCAN and Other Wilderness Roads of the North. In this first week, we’re doing those “other wilderness roads” … Continue reading →

A New Book in the Family! EDD ROUSH: A Biography of the Cincinnati Reds Star ISBN 978-0-7864-4407-6 McFarland, April 2010. Here’s a new book to be proud of, even though I didn’t write it. Still, I’m compelled to spread the … Continue reading →