Produced by Suzanne Lybarger, Brian Janes, Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net and the booksmiths at http://www.eBookForge.net 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 ten, for the book was projected and the title adopted some years ago, and the journeys have continued. But ten thousand is a good round titular number, and is none the worse for being well within the mark. So far as mere distance is concerned, anyway, there is nothing noteworthy in this record. There are many men in Alaska who have done much more. A mail-carrier on one of the longer dog routes will cover four thousand miles in a winter, while the writer's average is less than two thousand. But his sled has gone far off the beaten track, across the arctic wilderness, into many remote corners; wherever, indeed, white men or natives were to be found in all the great interior. These journeys were connected primarily with the administration of the extensive work of the Episcopal Church in the interior of Alaska, under the bishop of the diocese; but that feature of them has been fully set forth from time to time in the church publications, and finds only incidental reference here.