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Title: Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled
A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska

Author: Hudson Stuck

Release Date: October 12, 2007 [EBook #22965]

Language: English

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TEN THOUSAND MILES WITH A DOG SLED

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

THE ASCENT OF DENALI (MT. McKINLEY).

A narrative of the first complete ascent of THE HIGHEST MOUNTAIN IN
NORTH AMERICA and the most northerly high mountain in the world.

Profusely illustrated. 8vo. $1.75 _net_

"Few climbers have had such good fortune on a
supreme occasion, but few have better deserved
it."

--_London Spectator._

[Illustration: Handwritten: Hudson Stuck.]

TEN THOUSAND MILES WITH
A DOG SLED

A NARRATIVE OF WINTER TRAVEL IN INTERIOR ALASKA

BY

HUDSON STUCK, D.D., F.R.G.S.
ARCHDEACON OF THE YUKON
AUTHOR OF "THE ASCENT OF DENALI (MOUNT McKINLEY)"

ILLUSTRATED

SECOND EDITION

NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1916

COPYRIGHT, 1914, 1916, BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

TO
GRAFTON BURKE, M.D.
AND
EDGAR WEBB LOOMIS, M.D.

PUPILS, COMRADES, COLLEAGUES,
COMPANIONS ON SOME OF THESE JOURNEYS,
ALWAYS DEAR FRIENDS,

AND TO

THE MOTHER OF THE THREE OF US

SEWANEE

THE COLLEGE ON THE MOUNTAIN-TOP
WHERE THE OLD IDEALS ARE STILL
UNFLINCHINGLY MAINTAINED

THIS VOLUME
IS
AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED
BY
THE AUTHOR

PREFACE

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 t