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Brian Castner

Brian Castner
Brian Castner is a former Explosive Ordnance Disposal officer who received a Bronze Star for his service in the Iraq War. He is the author of two books, The Long Walk (2012) and All the Ways We Kill and Die (2016), and the co-editor of the anthology The Road Ahead (2017). His journalism and essays have appeared in Esquire, Wired, Vice, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, and other publications. He and his family live in Buffalo, New York.


Secrets and Lies in the Early Days of the Klondike Gold Rush

Brian Castner on Lying George Carmack and the
Discovery of a Lifetime
April 19, 2021  By Brian Castner
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How History Has Failed to Tell the Story of the Gold
Rush Women

Brian Castner on a the Not-So-Secret Role of Women in the Klondike
April 13, 2021  By Brian Castner
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