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

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1936
• Subjects: gasoline; mushing; Anchorage; Alaska; malmute; wilderness; skidmobile; Bob and Charlie Mathison; tractor treads; snowbird; dog team; Stanley Morgan; Point Barrow; Roaring Boring Alice; Eskimos; arctic ocean shore; polar bears; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Pacific; Barrow; eskimo*
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/90546

Gasoline Goes Do Mushing Now. GASOLINE DOGS DO MUSHING NOW By Associated Press. ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Oct. 26. —The malmutes' last stronghold— wilderness trap lines—gave way today to the skidmobile. Two veteran Alaska trappers, Bob and Charlie Mathison, brothers, who have driven dogs over thousands of miles of northland snow, bought an automobile, equipped the front axles with sledge runners and the rear ones with tractor treads. They named it the "Snowbird" and predicted it would enable them to cover 150 miles of trap line daily, instead of 30 possible with the husky teams. With fair going on clear snow, the Mathisons said their skidmobile would develop 40 miles an hour,| which would leave the best dog' team panting miles in the rear. Sergeant Stanley Morgan of Point Barrow first introduced the converted automobile to Alaska. His Roaring Boring Alice, as he named it, set the Eskimos and polar bears agog on the arctic ocean shore.