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Spirit of the wind : the story of George Attla, Alaska's legendary sled dog sprint champ / Lew Freedman.
- Title
- Spirit of the wind : the story of George Attla, Alaska's legendary sled dog sprint champ / Lew Freedman.
- Author
- Freedman, Lew
- Publication
- Kenmore, Wash. : Epicenter Press, c2000.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | SF440.15 .F744 2000 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 223 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- For decades, George Attla dominated the sport of sprint mushing. This is the biography of an extraordinary man and his dogs whose uncommon strength, agility, speed, and endurance are the stuff of champions.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Newcomer -- Early dog days -- Diagnosis: TB -- Endurance -- Lifeline -- Last place -- Break -- Village advantage -- World champion! -- Dog man -- Tough winter -- Super dogs -- Competition -- Rivalry -- New title -- Full-time musher -- Breeding business -- Working dogs -- Iditarod! -- Resilience -- Leaders -- World titles -- Spirit of the wind -- Retirement? -- Huslia hustler -- Guile and guts -- Roots -- Mellowing -- Elusive edge -- Greatest.
- ISBN
- 0945397933
- LCCN
- ^^^00136168^
- OCLC
- 47199598
- SCSB-12047636
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library