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Word: musher (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 10, 1929 | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mushing | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Husky v. Wolfhound | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

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