https://americacomesalive.com/sled-dog-team-travels-from-nome-to-d-c-1907/ Quick Takes and Popular Postings about America's Past Mon, 01 Nov 2021 18:13:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://americacomesalive.com/sled-dog-team-travels-from-nome-to-d-c-1907/#comment-391181 Tue, 03 Sep 2019 18:42:36 +0000 https://americacomesalive.com/?p=10677#comment-391181 […] The story of King as provided by the scriptwriters was that he was a Husky puppy who was separated from his mother and raised by a wolf. When a lynx comes along to make short work of mother wolf and her adopted son, Sergeant Preston arrives in time to save the pup. He names the dog King and raises him alongside his dog team. King soon proves worthy of being the team leader. (For a true story of a wolf that became the leader of a dog team, read “Sled Dog Team Travels from Nome to D.C., 1907.”) […]

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