Northwest History. Alaska. Dogs, Dog Races & Mushers.

Start Long Trip Over Snow Trail. START LONG TRIP OVER SNOW TRAIL NENANA, Alasks, Jan. 27. (/P)—Accompanied by his three-year-old daughter, D. L. McDonald today was on the first lap of a 1000-mile journey by dog team from Nenana across the wasten of interior Alaska to his lonely home at Candle, 150 m...

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Language:English
Published: 1927
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Online Access:http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/90493
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Summary:Start Long Trip Over Snow Trail. START LONG TRIP OVER SNOW TRAIL NENANA, Alasks, Jan. 27. (/P)—Accompanied by his three-year-old daughter, D. L. McDonald today was on the first lap of a 1000-mile journey by dog team from Nenana across the wasten of interior Alaska to his lonely home at Candle, 150 miles northeast of Nome. He is returning from Michigan, where he went to bury his wife in accordance with her dying wish. The first two-thirds of the 60-day trip, from Nenana to Unalakleet, will be over the mail trail made famous by the race to Nome with diphtheria serum three years ago. But McDonald will be obliged to break his own path northward from Unalakleet along the windswept, shores of Norton sound, where Gunnar Kasson fought his way through heavy snows on the last leg of the serum dash.