Showing posts with label dog-team. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dog-team. Show all posts

Saturday, January 27, 2018

The Indian Dog Train Was Used When the Snow Was Too Deep or Too Soft to Uphold Horses (1915)

Seymour Dunbar, A History of Travel in America, Showing the Development of Travel and Transportation from the Crude Methods of the Canoe and the Dog-Sled to the Highly Organized Railway Systems of the Present, Together with a Narrative of the Human Experiences and Changing Social Conditions That Accompanied This Economic Conquest of the Continent  (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1915), 54.

Sunday, January 7, 2018

Our Lives Were in the Hand of God. On the 8th We Tasted the Dogs’ Flesh for the First Time (1901)

“The Voyage of the Polar Star: ‘Nearest the Pole.’ Commander Cagni’s Own Account of His Hazardous Journey,” The Pall Mall Magazine 24 ( May to August 1901): 413.

Sunday, January 11, 2015

I Made a Fire, and by Boiling Snow Made My Kettle (1896)

John MacDougall,  Saddle, Sled and Snowshoe: Pioneering on the Saskatchewan in the Sixties, Illustrations by J.E. Laughlin (Cincinnati: Jennings and Graham, 1896), frontispiece.

Tuesday, January 7, 2014