NEW ZEALANDER — R. H. Bensell, member of a New
Zealand force training for amphibious operations, carries his unit’s
i mascot, “Pooch,” in addition to a full pack. New Zealanders took
i part in landings on Treasury Islands.
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Communications
WHERE THE SLEIGH
DOGS HOWL
By George Jennings Gale
Once a friend told me that the
sweetest music of his boyhood
was the byaing of a pack of
beagles on a cold frosty morning
back in good old Ohio. While
another claimed that the music
of his soul was the sound of the
coon hounds on a hot trail way
up in the Great Smoky Moun
tains of eastern Tennessee, while
, sitting around the camp fire, fry
ing side meat and listening to the
long, lanky mountaineers with
their long muzzle-loading rifles,
home-spun clothes and rugged
cowhide boots all went to make
up the local color of the moun
tains.
I listened to these men and it
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all sounded good too; but then
we in Alaska think that there is
nothing as wild liee, forlorn
somewhat sad and dreary, per
haps soul rendering as the howl
of the sled dogs, whether he be
, malemute or husky, half wolf or
half coyote, there is something
about the sleigh dog that gives
one the feeling of the “Lure of
the North—the Call of the Wild.
Yes, and the prospectors, in
their black Stetson hats, rough
checked shirts, stagged-off Sagi
naw pants and Cippewa boots,
and the trappers with their par
kas, mukluks or macassions,
many of them squaw men or
“klootch” men, give this fair
land the color, the power, the rush
and crash of the real frontier.
The squawmen have done more
to bring the white man’s civili
zation into the backwoods than
all the missionaries, soldiers, po
lice or bootleggers put together.;
He is the ambassador between hte
two races.
But all this may pass as dogs
from civilization, such as setters
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cockers or rat terriers, become
the common dog of our towns.
What tourist would want to see
such a band of mongrels when
he had been reading about the
fierce Alaska sleigh dogs. Look
ing around he would see none.
And the Alaskans themselves
dressed as people in Seattle,
Omaha or Milwaukee. We of
Alaska should do as the people
of the western states do. They
put on Frontier Days, Round-ups,
Stampedes or Rodeos to keep the
spirit of the West.
Why should we not keep the
spirit of the North alive for
after the war we will have to
settle down to mining, logging,
fishing and the tourist trade once
more.
GEORGE GALE
Healy Fork, Alaska.
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