A lifelong Alaskan, Steve Kahn moved at the age of nine from the metropolis of Anchorage to the foothills of the Chugach Mountains. A childhood of berry picking, fishing, and hunting led to a life as a big-game guide. When he wasn t guiding in the spring and fall, he worked as a commercial fisherman and earned his pilot s license, pursuits that took him to the far reaches of the Alaskan wilderness. He lived through some of the most important moments in the state s history: the 1964 earthquake (the most powerful in U.S. history), the Farewell Burn wildfire, the last king crab season in...