On October 27, 1908, a U. S. Mail carrier named Estelle Mason left Nome, Alaska with an old Alaska-Yukon mail sled and her team of twelve dogs, which would later be described as ‘three-quarter wolf,’ on a 32,000-mile journey around the world. Her intended route was to New York, where she and her dogs would board a steamer for England, and then travel, a…
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