Word: nome
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
...roads lead to Nome, only the dazzling desert of the snow. But last week, Leonard Seppalla was not driving Scotty to a fever-stricken town near the Bering Strait with a cargo of serum strapped to his skidding sled. He was driving a team through the Adirondack woods, near Lake Placid, in the second Annual Lake Placid Sled Dog Derby, which he won with a total elapsed time of two hours and 32 minutes for the two 15-mile laps of the run. Later the most famous of dog team drivers banqueted in the Lake Placid Club with...
...racing is a necessity, not a sport, in Polar regions or across the drifting ice of Norton Sound in Alaska where Seppalla became famous for his five and a half day mush to Nome in 1925 with diphtheria serum, beating the record run for 655 miles by three and a half days. Balto, whom Gunnar Kasson drove on the race to Nome, also dragged Roald Amundsen north when he planned his polar flight...
Huskies. Emile St. Godard of The Pas, Manitoba, raced his dogs against the famous huskies of Leonard Seppala, the man who took the serum to Nome, beat him in a 123-mile dog derby for a gold...