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...contracting to deliver 3,000 head to the Kittigazuit Peninsula, just east of the Mackenzie Delta. Andy Bahr solved Carl Lomen's problem by agreeing to lead the drive. On Dec. 16, 1929 after months of preparation and a reconnoitering trip by airplane, he set out from Naboktoolik, small Eskimo village in western Alaska, with three Laplanders, six Eskimos, a medical attendant, a geographer, 39 sleds piled with supplies and 3,000 reindeer. His goal lay 1,200 miles away over desolate mountains and across barren snow fields. Said he: "We'll be getting there in about...
Last week what was left of the herd- about 2,100 head-still waited beside the Delta. Gone were the three Lapps, the six Eskimos, the medical attendant, the geographer who had set out from Naboktoolik six years before. But tough old Andy Bahr was there with new drivers, ready any day to begin the end of the greatest man-managed animal trek in history...
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