Word: musher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...account of Bishop Brent reminds me of the story of Bishop Rowe of Alaska. One day the Bishop met a prospector on a stretch of bad trail, and asked him how the trail was. The prospector described the condition in language such as a dog-musher is supposed to be complete master of. Then, pausing for breath, he said, "And how is it where your way?" Without a moment's hesitation the Bishop, "Just the same as you describe." At the next roadhouse the old-timer was much chagrined when told that he had passed the bishop...
Canada's mushing season continued, at Quebec. Leonard Sepalla, oldtime musher from Nome, Alaska, loudly exhorted his fine-bred Siberian huskies in the annual three-day Eastern International Sled Dog Derby and finished 17 minutes ahead of Frank Dupuis, a St. Lawrence River Lighthouse keeper with a team of snapping mongrels. Behind Dupuis came Emil St. Goddard of Manitoba...
Leonard Seppalla, of Nome, Alaska, oldtime musher, drove his Siberian husky dogs to their third consecutive victory in the New England sled-dog racing championship, last week at Laconia, N. H. Emil St. Goddard, of The Pas, Manitoba, recognized as Seppalla's master as a racer, finished second with a team of wolfhounds which lacked speed and stamina for the three-day trudge over a 128-mile course...