Gary Brumbelow

Gary Brumbelow grew up in town but always wished he’d been raised on a ranch.

At age ten, his family moved from Texas to the wide-open country of northern Nebraska, where he developed a lifelong love for wilderness and adventure. He spent countless hours roaming the snowy hills above the Niobrara River, exploring lonely country that, to a young boy’s imagination, felt as wild as Alaska.

Years later, Gary and his bride moved to cattle country in the interior of British Columbia, Canada, where they lived beside the mighty Fraser River, eight miles beyond the power line and far from their nearest neighbors.

During those years they became friends with the owners of a massive ranch stretching from the Fraser River deep into British Columbia’s Coast Mountains. That rugged wilderness landscape would later inspire the setting for Someplace North, Someplace Wild.

When he isn’t writing, Gary enjoys kayaking, camping in the Cascades with family, splitting firewood, and flying stunt kites on the Oregon coast.