Word: dogsledding
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Eight official A.W.V.S. uniforms included breeches and boots for the cycle corps, ski-troop suits for workers in the far North (couriers, spotters, dogsled teamsters in Saranac, N.Y., Alaska, etc.). For A.W.V.S. fingernails, light polish was prescribed; hairdo: simple, preferably short, up off the neck.
"River's End" brings to life James Oliver Curwood's best of many good yarns. It is full of mystery, action and Canadian scenery, and Mounties cut to a schoolboy's dreams--crossing mountains, valleys and rives in canoe, on horseback and dogsled, and always "getting their man."
To the north-country adventurer of Bob Service days, help when he needed it came at dogsled pace if at all. Nowadays there is new hope in the north. Recently, scudding high over the bleak Canadian wastes near White Horse, Pilot Sheldon Loucke's eye was caught by an...
Toward the end, fleetly dropping pungent comments, Anderson whizzes by Clyde Fitch, William Vaughn Moody, Eugene O'Neill, Maxwell Anderson, Sidney Howard, George S. Kaufman, George Kelly, Clifford Odets and others like a dogsled carrying serum to Nome; calls the Federal Theatre an artistic flop; describes the U. S...
In 1930 a prospector and promoter named Gilbert LaBine, who had started a company called Eldorado Gold Mines Ltd., was driving his dogsled across the frozen surface of Canada's Great Bear Lake, which is cut by the Arctic Circle. He spotted a vein of curious, glossy stuff which...