The White Collie Alaska
When we receive a letter very interesting, the desire to publish it is
sometimes too strong to resist. So we report below the communication
sent to us by Mr. Radford SC, Oshkosh - Wisconsin.
"The attached photograph depicts a white collie that we sent some time ago
to Thomas Gordon, Point Barrow, Alaska. This place is the northernmost
point of the American continent and Mr. Gordon, who is in charge of some
governmental herds of reindeer, was looking for a dog to help her to care for
these animals.
The local dogs, Lapp and Eskimo are more or less similar to the wolf in their
genetic heritage, so they have a natural tendency to kill the reindeer, they
have no instinct for herding.
Mr. Gordon, who has lived in Alaska since she was sixteen years, being
originally from Scotland, knew the valuable work of Collie in dealing with
any kind of animal. We send the collie, who left here in mid-April, he embarked
on launching Bear Captain Cochran on 1 May 1916 from San Francisco and
arrived at Point Barrow in mid-August. There the climate is so cold that the
salty water freezes, except for a period of five or six weeks in mid summer,
so the boats and the boats are forced to travel in this region only
in a very limited time.
This dog survived, however, and the new owner told me that he began to
help him round up the reindeer, from the moment it arrived. There in this
season from migrating to the south the new born, so to find six or eight dogs
that help would be very important in this work.
The white collie seems to be particularly suitable for Alaska, for the simple
reason that most of the wildlife in winter is this color. ".
It can also be interesting to know the number of white collie who are with the Army and
Navy. There is one on the battleship Wisconsin, one with the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers in France, and one has just gone to the Signal Corps, and another is
Infantry Division with a Rainbow and one in the Cavalry.
For information originally may be said that the collie was a white fawn Collie
random mutation. Farmers, in an attempt to produce more and larger white collars,
they got occasional specimens completely white. These different
litters of white puppies were crossed with each other. Today, the
white neck and a standard variety and can be recorded as such
in the American Kennel Club pedigree.
This article was published in the March 1919 issue of "Country Life in America,"
an illustrated monthly published in the United States continuously from 1901 to
1942. We thank Mrs. Linda Rorem for the information and explanations given.
When we receive a letter very interesting, the desire to publish it is
sometimes too strong to resist. So we report below the communication
sent to us by Mr. Radford SC, Oshkosh - Wisconsin.
"The attached photograph depicts a white collie that we sent some time ago
to Thomas Gordon, Point Barrow, Alaska. This place is the northernmost
point of the American continent and Mr. Gordon, who is in charge of some
governmental herds of reindeer, was looking for a dog to help her to care for
these animals.
The local dogs, Lapp and Eskimo are more or less similar to the wolf in their
genetic heritage, so they have a natural tendency to kill the reindeer, they
have no instinct for herding.
Mr. Gordon, who has lived in Alaska since she was sixteen years, being
originally from Scotland, knew the valuable work of Collie in dealing with
any kind of animal. We send the collie, who left here in mid-April, he embarked
on launching Bear Captain Cochran on 1 May 1916 from San Francisco and
arrived at Point Barrow in mid-August. There the climate is so cold that the
salty water freezes, except for a period of five or six weeks in mid summer,
so the boats and the boats are forced to travel in this region only
in a very limited time.
This dog survived, however, and the new owner told me that he began to
help him round up the reindeer, from the moment it arrived. There in this
season from migrating to the south the new born, so to find six or eight dogs
that help would be very important in this work.
The white collie seems to be particularly suitable for Alaska, for the simple
reason that most of the wildlife in winter is this color. ".
It can also be interesting to know the number of white collie who are with the Army and
Navy. There is one on the battleship Wisconsin, one with the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers in France, and one has just gone to the Signal Corps, and another is
Infantry Division with a Rainbow and one in the Cavalry.
For information originally may be said that the collie was a white fawn Collie
random mutation. Farmers, in an attempt to produce more and larger white collars,
they got occasional specimens completely white. These different
litters of white puppies were crossed with each other. Today, the
white neck and a standard variety and can be recorded as such
in the American Kennel Club pedigree.
This article was published in the March 1919 issue of "Country Life in America,"
an illustrated monthly published in the United States continuously from 1901 to
1942. We thank Mrs. Linda Rorem for the information and explanations given.
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| " The White Collie Alaska " |
Vintage Article originally printed in
Country Life in America,
March 1919
Country Life in America,
March 1919
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