CURTIS LADUE rolls a cigarette, lights up, and turns in his saddle to put into words what I’ve been thinking for the last hour: “Gus is a shithead.” Gus is the only unsaddled or unpacked horse in our ...

I got the heads-up call the second week of February from Doug in Bethel. The next week was forecast for colder weather and snow. The plan was to go hunting for moose or muskox on sno-gos (the local ...