Word: dogsledding
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Weil-Bred. Romanticized in the novels of Jack London, sled dogs were immortalized after the epic dash to carry diphtheria serum to Nome in 1925. Since then, though the airplane and bulldozer have displaced the Husky as Arctic freight haulers, the Huskies have served man well. Shearer, president of a...
¶In Labrador, a team of dog paratroopers made a practice jump on orders of U.S. Colonel Paul A. Zartman, Goose Bay airbase commandant. Zartman's idea: harnessed to a dogsled (which can also be parachuted), dogs can haul human chutists on difficult Arctic rescue missions. The tests proved...
A walk from Dunster to New Lecture or from Eliot to Sever will soon be numbing the digits to the point where, for the first ten minutes of the hour, they can make no fountain pen do their bidding. Maneuverability is even lower for the wayfarer who, by dogsled or...
Died. Robert Abram ("Captain Bob") Bartlett, 70, salty, sentimental sea dog who spent nearly half a century moseying around the Arctic for fun and profit; of kidney and heart disease; in Manhattan. In 1909 he commanded the ship that carried Peary within dogsled distance of the North Pole.
Out of Good Clay. Born in Seattle, Ward went to work at four, left home at 17 to become a sailor, later drove a dogsled and mined gold in Alaska, fought with Pancho Villa in Mexico. In 1920, he found himself in Leavenworth Prison for violating the narcotics law. There...