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“There are a few lonely places in this world, and the wastes of the great Alaskan Interior are the loneliest of them all.”
― The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic
― The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic
“The man-dog contract goes back to before the invention of writing, before the invention of the wheel, even before the invention of agriculture. In that sense, living with dogs may be one of the oldest surviving cultural landmarks of our heritage, a surviving fragment of the Stone Age.”
― The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic
― The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic
“No record exists of Bear’s fate. He may have survived, but in all likelihood he never ran again—a horrible fate for an animal that lived and breathed solely to run with its pack down a moonlit trail. Some dogs just won’t accept being left out of the team and will howl and moan as the team leaves the yard. Sometimes they will sink into depression and die. Even those who accept their fate to sit by and watch the team leave always keep alive the instinct to one day run again. “If ever their master comes to them with harness in hand,” a modern-day musher wrote, “they will struggle on arthritic legs to ready themselves for the trail. There may be pain in their backs, but there is always hope in their eyes.”
― The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic
― The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic
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