On Time Delivery: The Dog Team Mail Carriers

by William Schneider

Book Overview

From the turn of the twentieth century in interior Alaska, dog team mail carriers were charged with maintaining the trail systems and carrying the mail until they were replaced in the late 1930s and '40s by airplane mail service. With the advent and widespread adoption of aviation, many of the trails were abandoned, and a generation of rural Alaskans has now grown up with few ties to the overland trail system that supported their grandparents and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1602231672
• ISBN13: 9781602231672
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: University of Alaska Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"