Professor Al Drake Encouraged Me

Tom Kizzia Hasn't Just Observed And Written About Alaska For Three-plus Decades, He's Lived It. 'pilgrim's Wilderness' Is A Story That Needed To Be Told By The Only Man Who Could Tell It.

The Difference Between An Optimist And A Pessimist? An Optimist Laughs To Forget, But A Pessimist Forgets To Laugh.

I Come From Very Common Stock, And I've Always Been Uncomfortable With Pretension And All The Forms It Can Take, Including Disingenuous Broadcasting.

Kids In Alaska Don't Know They're Growing Up On The Last Frontier. It's Just What They See On The License Plates, And It's Something Tourists Like To Say A Lot Because They've Never Been Around So Many Mountains And Moose Before.

It's Not Like Alaska Isn't Wilderness - It Mostly Is. But Most Alaskans Don't Live In The Wild. They Live On The Edge Of The Wild In Towns With Schools And Cable Tv And Stores And Dentists And Roller Rinks Sometimes. It's Just Like Anyplace Else, Only With Mountains And Moose.