World Glacier Inventory Workshop (Proceedings), Published by the International Association of Hyrological Sciences

Wiebe's "The Naming of Albert Johnson" demonstrates how even well-worn material can be imaginatively recast.Avid readers will be familiar with Dick North's The Mad Trapper of Rat River and Thomas Kelly's Rat River Trapper, two previous accounts of this mysterious recluse.Wiebe begins, however, where these two chroniclers left off.It is not so much what happened that intrigues Wiebe, but why it happened.Accounting for Johnson's sudden and extreme violence by framing it within the primitive belief that one falls prey to evil forces if his name is discovered, Wiebe succeeds in linking these two principal features of the

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