Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled. Hudson Stuck

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       Hudson Stuck

      Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled

      A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664612694

Table of Contents

       PREFACE

       PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION

       ILLUSTRATIONS

       TEN THOUSAND MILES WITH A DOG SLED

       AUTHOR'S NOTE

       TEN THOUSAND MILES WITH A DOG SLED

       CHAPTER I

       FAIRBANKS TO THE CHANDALAR THROUGH CIRCLE CITY AND FORT YUKON

       CHAPTER II

       CHANDALAR VILLAGE TO BETTLES, COLDFOOT, AND THE KOYUKUK

       CHAPTER III

       BETTLES TO THE PACIFIC—THE ALATNA, KOBUK PORTAGE, KOBUK VILLAGE, KOTZEBUE SOUND

       CHAPTER IV

       THE SEWARD PENINSULA—CANDLE CREEK, COUNCIL, AND NOME

       CHAPTER V

       NOME TO FAIRBANKS—NORTON SOUND—THE KALTAG PORTAGE—NULATO—UP THE YUKON TO TANANA

       CHAPTER VI

       THE "FIRST ICE"—AN AUTUMN ADVENTURE ON THE KOYUKUK

       CHAPTER VII

       THE KOYUKUK TO THE YUKON AND TO TANANA—CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS AT SAINT JOHN'S-IN-THE-WILDERNESS

       CHAPTER VIII

       UP THE YUKON TO RAMPART AND ACROSS COUNTRY TO THE TANANA—ALASKAN AGRICULTURE—THE GOOD DOG NANOOK—MISS FARTHING'S BOYS AT NENANA—CHENA AND FAIRBANKS

       CHAPTER IX

       TANANA CROSSING TO FORTYMILE AND DOWN THE YUKON—A PATRIARCHAL CHIEF—SWARMING CARIBOU—EAGLE AND FORT EGBERT—CIRCLE CITY AND FORT YUKON

       CHAPTER X

       FROM THE TANANA RIVER TO THE KUSKOKWIM—THENCE TO THE IDITAROD MINING CAMP—THENCE TO THE YUKON, AND UP THAT RIVER TO FORT YUKON

       CHAPTER XI

       THE NATIVES OF ALASKA

       CHAPTER XII

       PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE ARCTIC

       CHAPTER XIII

       THE NORTHERN LIGHTS

       CHAPTER XIV

       THE ALASKAN DOGS

       INDEX

PREFACE

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      This volume deals with a series of journeys taken with a dog team over the winter trails in the interior of Alaska. The title might have claimed fourteen or fifteen thousand miles instead of ten, for the book was projected and the title adopted some years ago, and the journeys have continued. But ten thousand is a good round titular number, and is none the worse for being well within the mark.

      So far as mere distance is concerned, anyway, there is nothing noteworthy in this record. There are many men in Alaska who have done much more. A mail-carrier on one of the longer dog routes will cover four thousand miles in a winter, while the writer's average is less than two thousand. But his sled has gone far off the beaten track, across the arctic wilderness, into many remote corners; wherever, indeed, white men or natives were to be found in all the great interior.

      These journeys were connected primarily with the administration of the extensive work of the Episcopal Church in the interior of Alaska, under the bishop of the diocese; but that feature of them has been fully set forth from time to time in the church publications, and finds only incidental reference here.

      It is a great, wild country, little known save along accustomed routes of travel; a country with a beauty and a fascination all its own; mere arctic wilderness, indeed, and nine tenths of it probably destined always to remain such, yet full of interest and charm.

      Common opinion "outside" about Alaska seems to be veering from the view that it is a land of perpetual snow and ice to the other extreme of holding it to be a "world's treasure-house" of mineral wealth and agricultural possibility. The world's treasure is deposited in many houses, and Alaska has its share; its mineral wealth is very great, and "hidden doors of opulence" may open at any time, but its agricultural possibilities, in the ordinary sense in which the phrase is used, are confined to very small areas in proportion to the enormous whole, and in very limited degree.

      It