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The Chukotka Sled Dog (чукотская ездовая) is the aboriginal spitz breed of dog indigenous to the Chukchi people of Russia. Chukotka sled dog teams have been used since prehistoric times to pull sleds in harsh conditions, such as hunting sea mammals on oceanic pack ice. Chukotka sled dogs are most famous as the progenitor of the ...
Susan Howlet Butcher (December 26, 1954 – August 5, 2006) was an American dog musher, noteworthy as the second woman to win the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in 1986, the second four-time winner in 1990, and the first to win four out of five sequential years.
Togo (1913 – December 5, 1929) was the lead sled dog of musher Leonhard Seppala and his dog sled team in the 1925 serum run to Nome across central and northern Alaska.Despite covering a far greater distance than any other lead dogs on the run, over some of the most dangerous parts of the trail, his role was left out of contemporary news of the event at the time, in favor of the lead dog for ...
George Attla (August 8, 1933 – February 15, 2015) was a champion sprint dog musher. [4] Attla won ten Anchorage Fur Rendezvous Championships and eight North American Open championships [5] with a career that spanned from 1958 to 2011. [6] Attla was the subject of a 1993 book titled George Attla: The Legend of the Sled-dog Trail, by Lewis "Lew ...
Sled dog racing (sometimes termed dog sled racing) is a winter dog sport most popular in the Arctic regions of the United States, Canada, Russia, Greenland and some European countries. [1] It involves the timed competition of teams of sled dogs that pull a sled with the dog driver or musher standing on the runners.
Yukon Quest: The 1000-mile dog sled race through the Yukon and Alaska. Lost Moose Publishing, 1998. Whitehorse, Yukon. pp. 260–273. Killick, Adam. Racing the White Silence: On the Trail of the Yukon Quest. Penguin Global, May 2005. Yukon Quest International. "2014 Yukon Quest Media Guide" (PDF), Yukonquest.com. Accessed Sept. 3, 2014.
"Sled Dogs" explores the lesser-known aspects of the sled dog industry, shedding light on the living conditions of these animals during the off-season. Rather than focusing on the commonly promoted image of sled dogs as tourism and sports icons, the film presents a sincere and moving account, encouraging viewers to delve deeper into the topic ...
Dog musher on the Iditarod Trail. Vaughan moved to Alaska at the age of 68. Bankrupt and divorced, he rebuilt his life, competing in 13 Iditarod races and "crashing" the Presidential Inauguration parade in 1977, bringing sled dogs to represent his adopted state. In 1981 and 1985, he and his Alaskan contingent formally participated in the parade.