Writer John McPhee was at ease in a canoe, Brad Snow was at ease with him

Brad Snow in a canoe looking very relaxed and free, living along the Yukon River in Alaska. (Photo courtesy Brad Snow and Lilly Allen/UAF Project Jukebox)Brad Snow was 26 years old when he left Anchorage to start a life with his girlfriend, Lilly Allen, near the Yukon River. The couple is featured in John McPhee’s book “Coming into the Country,” published 40 years ago.
Snow and Allen built a log cabin on the Nation River, a tributary to the Yukon. But in 1976, the Bureau of Lan