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Notice: Hydrophobia! (1870),  J. Proctor, Printer and Lithographer.

Miner and Dog Team, Bonanza Creek, YT 1898. Edwin Tappan Adney.

The double team of dogs used with the reconnoitering sledge at the pole, showing their alertness and good condition (1910). Robert Peary.

Mad Dogs and Steam Engines

Beierl, Barbara Hardy. “The Sympathetic Imagination and the Human-Animal Bond: Fostering Empathy through Reading Imaginative Literature.” Anthrozoos 21.3 (2008): 213-219. Academic Search Complete. Web. 14 Nov 2014.

Blaisdell, John D. "With Certain Reservations: The American Veterinary Community's Reception of Pasteur's Work on Rabies." Agricultural History 70.3 (1996): 503-24. JSTOR. Web. 14 Nov 2014.

“Boy Dies from Hydrophobia.” Los Angeles Times. 21 Nov 1913. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Los Angeles Times (1881-1990). Web. 14 Nov 2014.

 

Brown, Laura. Homeless Dogs & Melancholy Apes: Humans and Other Animals in the Modern Literary Imagination. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell UP, 2010. Print.

Chidester, David. “Darwin’s Dogs: Animals, Animism, and the Problem of Religion.” Soundings 92.1-2 (2009): 51-55. Academic Search Complete. Web. 14 Nov 2014.


Cummins, Bryan. "Your Beast of Burden: The Dog in Harness." Our Debt to the Dog: How the Domestic Dog Shaped Human Societies. Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2013. Print.

“Death Due to Hydrophobia: Bite by Mad Bulldog Proves Fatal to Man.”

Los Angeles Times. 4 May 1910. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Los Angeles Times (1881-1990). Web. 14 Nov 2014.

 

“Death From Hydrophobia: A Seattle Merchant Bitten by a Dog in Chicago.” Los Angeles Times. 6 Nov 1893. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Los Angeles Times (1881-1990). Web. 14 Nov 2014.

 

“Death From Hydrophobia: Passengers on Pennsylvania Train Witness Horrible End of Glassworker Lake.” Los Angeles Times. 29 Jan 1905. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Los Angeles Times (1881-1990). Web. 14 Nov 2014.

“Delusion of Hydrophobia.” Los Angeles Times. 4 April 1915. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Los Angeles Times (1881-1990). Web. 14 Nov 2014.

 

Derr, Mark. A Dog's History of America: How Our Best Friend Explored, Conquered, and Settled a Continent. New York: North Point Press, 2004. Print.

Duffy, John. “Hogs, Dogs, and Dirt: Public Health in Early Pittsburgh.” The Pennsylvanian Magazine of History and Biography 87.3 (1963): 294-305. JSTOR. Web. 14 Nov 2014.

Elsom, Derek M. and Jonathan D.C. Webb. “Documenting 25 Years of Deaths and Injuries from Lightning in the U.K.” Oxford Brookes University & Tornado and Storm Research Organzation (TORRO). Paper presented at the Royal Meterological Society’s Second Amateur Meterologist’s Conference, University of Reading, 14 Sept. 2013. rmets.org. Web. 14 Nov 2014.
 

“The Fear of Hydrophobia.” The New York Times. 20 June 1874. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2010). Web. 14 Nov 2014.

Feldman, Mark. “The Physics and Metaphysics of Caging: The Animal in Late-Nineteenth Century American Culture.” Mosaic 39.4 (2006): 161-180. Academic Search Complete. Web. 14 Nov 2014.

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. Herland. In The Forerunner, 1909-1916. Project

Gutenberg. Web. 14 Nov 2014.

 

Hansen, Bert. "America's First Medical Breakthrough: How Popular Excitement About A French Rabies Cure In 1885 Raised New Expectations for Medical Progress." American Historical Review 103.2 (1998): 373. Academic Search Complete. Web. 1 Dec. 2014.

“Horse Has Hydrophobia.” Los Angeles Times. 22 Oct. 1911. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Los Angeles Times (1881-1990). Web. 14 Nov 2014.


“Hydrophobia From His Son.” Los Angeles Times. 27 Sept 1897. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Los Angeles Times (1881-1990). Web. 14 Nov 2014.

“LOOK TO YOUR DOGS! Grave Apprehension of an Epidemic of Hydrophobia – The Rights of Property in Canines as Defined by Law.” The Chicago Tribune. 28 Dec. 1871. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Trinune (1849-1990). Web. 14 Nov 2014.


“Oh! We Are Dying of Hydrophobia: Fear-Crazed Father and Son Bitten by Dog Create Near-Panic.” Los Angeles Times. 21 Jul 1914. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Los Angeles Times (1881-1990). Web. 14 Nov 2014.


Olson, Roberta J. M., and Kathleen Hulser. "Petropolis: A Social History of Urban Animal Companions." Visual Studies 18.2 (2003): 133-43. Academic Search Complete. Web. 1 Dec 2014.

 

Pemberton, Neil, and Michael Worboys. Mad Dogs and Englishmen: Rabies in Britain, 1830-2000. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Print.

 

Potts, Alex. “Natural Order and the Call of the Wild: The Politics of Animal Picturing.” Oxford Art Journal 13.1 (1990): 12-33. JSTOR. Web. 14 Nov 2014.

 

“Race Against Hydrophobia.” Los Angeles Times. 23 May 1902. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Los Angeles Times (1881-1990). Web. 14 Nov 2014.

 

“Riot of Rabies Feared: Eleven Persons Bitten by Dogs During the Month of March.” The Chicago Tribune. 27 Mar 1897. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Tribune (1849-1990). Web. 14 Nov 2014.

Schivelbusch, Wolfgang. The Railway Journey: The Industrialization of Time and Space in the 19th Century. Berkeley, Calif.: U of California, 1986. Print.

 

“Sees No Rabies Peril: Commissioner Macfarland is Still Against Muzzling.” The Washington Post. 16 Jun 1908. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Washington Post (1877-1997). Web. 14 Nov 2014.

 

“Young Scott’s Death From Hydrophobia.” Los Angeles Times. 23 Feb 1910. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Los Angeles Times (1881-1990). Web. 14 Nov 2014.

 

 

 

The Pride of Trace and Trail

 

Alexander, Caroline. "The Man Who Took the Prize." Amundsen, Race to the South Pole. National Geographic, 1 Sept. 2011. Web. 14 Nov. 2014.

 

Amundsen, Roald, and A.G. Chater. The South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the 'Fram', 1910-1912 (Volume 1). New York: Lee Keedick, 1913. Project Gutenberg. Web. 14 Nov 2014.

 

Amundsen, Roald, and A.G. Chater. The South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the 'Fram', 1910-1912 (Volume 2). New York: Lee Keedick, 1913. Project Gutenberg. Web. 14 Nov 2014.

 

Auerbach, Jonathan. "'Congested Mails': Buck and Jack's 'Call'." American Literature 67.1 (1995): 51-76. Academic Search Complete. Web. 14 Nov 2014.

 

Avery, Tom. To the End of the Earth: Our Epic Journey to the North Pole and the Legend of Peary and Henson. New York: St. Martin's (2009). Print.

 

Chandler, Anne. “Black Dogs of the Gold Rush.” The Beaver 89.4 (2009): 42-45. American History and Life. Web. 14 Nov 2014.

 

Chidester, David. “Darwin’s Dogs: Animals, Animism, and the Problem of Religion.” Soundings 92.1-2 (2009): 51-55. Academic Search Complete. Web. 14 Nov 2014.

 

Copeland, Marion W., Heidi O'Brien. "Toward Biophilia: the role of children's literature in the development of empathy and compassion." The State of the Animals II. Washington D.C.: Humane Society Press, 2003. Print.

 

Cotel, Aline J., Raymond Golingo, Jill E. Oakes, and Rick R. Riewe. "Effect of Ancient Inuit Fur Parka Ruffs on Facial Heat Transfer." Climate Research 26.1 (2004): 77-84. Int-res.com. Inter-Research Science Center. Web. 28 Nov 2014.

 

Cummins, Bryan. "Your Beast of Burden: The Dog in Harness." Our Debt to the Dog: How the Domestic Dog Shaped Human Societies. Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2013. Print.

 

"Dawson Historical Complex National Historic Site of Canada Fact Sheet." Parks Canada. pc.gc.ca. Web. 14 Nov 2014.

 

Derr, Mark. A Dog's History of America: How Our Best Friend Explored, Conquered, and Settled a Continent. New York: North Point Press, 2004. Print.

 

London, Jack. The Call of the Wild and Selected Stories. New York: Signet, 1960. Print.

 

Kracauer, Sigfried. "Photography." The Mass Ornament: Wiemar Essays. Trans. Thomas Levin. Boston: Harvard University Press, 1995. Print.

 

Peary, Robert E. The North Pole: Its Discovery in 1909 Under the Auspices of the Peary Arctic Club. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1910. Project Gutenberg. Web. 14 Nov 2014.

 

Pease, Donald E. "Psychoanalyzing the Narrative Logics of Naturalism: The Call of the Wild." Journal of Modern Literature 25.3/4 (2002): 14-29. JSTOR. Web. 14 Nov 2014.

 

Wegner, Phillip E. Imaginary Communities : Utopia, the Nation, and the Spatial Histories of Modernity. Berkeley, CA, USA: University of California Press, 2002. ProQuest ebrary. Web. 28 Nov 2014.

 

Young, S. Hall. Adventures in Alaska. New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1919. Project Gutenberg. Web. 14 Nov 2014.

 

 

 

Images

 

Adney, Edwin Tappan. A.C. Company’s Dog Team, Dawson Y.T, 1899. Digital image. Wikimedia Commons. Web. 14 Nov. 2014.

 

Adney, Edwin Tappan. Chilcoots & dog, summit Dyea, BC (?) about 1900. Digital image. Photograph, Glass Lantern Slide. McCord Museum. Web. 14 Nov. 2014.

 

Adney, Edwin Tappan. Christmas in the Klondike—holiday greetings between an ‘El Dorado king’ and a ‘dog-puncher’ on the main street of Dawson. Digital Image reproduced from online auction. Originally published in Harper’s Weekly, c. 1894. Web. 14 Nov 2014.

 

Adney, Edwin Tappan. Dog Express, woman with bags, Dawson, YT, 1898. Digital image. Photograph, Glass Lantern Slide. McCord Museum. Web. 14 Nov. 2014.

 

Adney, Edwin Tappan. Man & dog, near Dawson, YT, about 1900. Digital image. Photograph, Glass Lantern Slide. McCord Museum. Web. 14 Nov. 2014.

 

Adney, Edwin Tappan. Miner and dog, each with pack, Klondike, about 1898. Digital image. Photograph, Glass Lantern Slide. McCord Museum. Web. 14 Nov. 2014.

 

Adney, Edwin Tappan. Miner and Dog Team, Bonanza Creek, YT 1898. Digital image. Photograph, Glass Lantern Slide. McCord Museum. Web. 14 Nov. 2014.

 

Amundsen, Roald. Deep in Thought. In Amundsen, Roald, and A.G. Chater. The South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the 'Fram', 1910-1912 (Volumes 1-2). New York: Lee Keedick, 1913. Project Gutenberg. Web. 14 Nov 2014.

 

Amundsen, Roald. Inside a Dog Tent. In Amundsen, Roald, and A.G. Chater. The South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the 'Fram', 1910-1912 (Volumes 1-2). New York: Lee Keedick, 1913. Project Gutenberg. Web. 14 Nov 2014.

 

Amundsen, Roald. In the Absence of Lady Partners, Ronne Takes a Turn with the Dogs. In Amundsen, Roald, and A.G. Chater. The South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the 'Fram', 1910-1912 (Volumes 1-2). New York: Lee Keedick, 1913. Project Gutenberg. Web. 14 Nov 2014.

 

Amundsen, Roald. Amundsen’s favorite dogs, Fix and Lassesin. United States Library of Congress, c. 1912. Web. 14 Nov 2014.

 

Bain News Service. Mrs. Herschel Parker. United States Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection, c.1910. Web. 14 Nov 2014.

 

Bond, Marshall. Photograph of Marshall Bond, Oliver H.P LaFarge, Lyman R. Colt, Stanley Pearce, and dogs Buck (Jack) and Pat. Marshall Bond Papers, 1898. Yale University Library. Reproduction presented here is from Stories and Folklore of Skagway, Alaska. Skagwaystories.org. Web. 28 Nov 2014.

 

Bruce, C. The Mad Dog (1834). In Pemberton, Neil, and Michael Worboys. Mad Dogs and Englishmen: Rabies in Britain, 1830-2000. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Print.

 

Busby, T.L. Mad Dog (1826). In Pemberton, Neil, and Michael Worboys. Mad Dogs and Englishmen: Rabies in Britain, 1830-2000. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Print.

 

Butler, Francis. Rabies Hydrophobia. In Breeding, Training, Management, Diseases of Dogs. New York: D. S.Holmes, 1877. Bookdome.com. Web. 14 Nov 2014.


Courbet, Gustav. Nude with Dog (1861). In Brown, Laura. Homeless Dogs and Melancholy Apes: Humans and Other Animals in the Modern Literary Imagination. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2010. Print.

 

Dog Power (1911). In Alexander, Caroline. "The Man Who Took the Prize." Amundsen, Race to the South Pole. National Geographic, 1 Sept. 2011. Web. 14 Nov. 2014. (National Library of Norway, Picture Collection).

 

Dog Team, Timmins Ont (c.1900). Cummins, Bryan. "Your Beast of Burden: The Dog in Harness." Our Debt to the Dog: How the Domestic Dog Shaped Human Societies. Durham: Carolina Academic, 2013. Print.

 

Dog Team, Prince Albert, Sask (c1900). In Cummins, Bryan. "Your Beast of Burden: The Dog in Harness." Our Debt to the Dog: How the Domestic Dog Shaped Human Societies. Durham: Carolina Academic, 2013. Print.

 

Fleming, G. Dumb Madness (1872). In Pemberton, Neil, and Michael Worboys. Mad Dogs and Englishmen: Rabies in Britain, 1830-2000. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Print.

 

Fleming, G. Furious Rabies, Late Stage (1872). In Pemberton, Neil, and Michael Worboys. Mad Dogs and Englishmen: Rabies in Britain, 1830-2000. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Print.

 

Harper’s Weekly. Louis Pasteur, left, and his collaborator, Emile Roux, treating a 15-year-old French boy with their experimental rabies vaccine. Digital Image, courtesy of McClean County Museum of History. In Kemp, Bill. “In 19th Century, Rabies was Menacing.” Pantagraph.com, 5 Dec 2010. Web. 14 Nov 2014.

 

J. Proctor, Printer and Lithographer. Notice! Hydrophobia (1870). In Pemberton, Neil, and Michael Worboys. Mad Dogs and Englishmen: Rabies in Britain, 1830-2000. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Print.

 

J. Proctor, Printer and Lithographer. Notice: Rabid Dogs (1841). In Pemberton, Neil, and Michael Worboys. Mad Dogs and Englishmen: Rabies in Britain, 1830-2000. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Print.

 

Jujiro Wada, Seward, Alaska (c.1910). Digital Image. Wikimedia Commons. Web. 14 Nov 2014.

 

Lawman & Hanford Stationary (artist unknown). Mail Team Leaving Circle City. Smithsonian Institution Archives, object number A.2010-3, c.1900. Web. 14 Nov. 2014.

 

Lomen Bros. Ralph and Helen Lomen on dog sled, ready for race. Digital Image. United States Library of Congress Archives, Carpenter Collection, 1915. Web. 14 Nov 2014.

 

LOOK TO YOUR DOGS! Grave Apprehension of an Epidemic of Hydrophobia – The Rights of Property in Canines as Defined by Law. The Chicago Tribune. 28 Dec. 1871. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Trinune (1849-1990). Web. 14 Nov 2014.

 

Malamute Chorus. Digital Image (photographer unknown). United States Library of Congress, Carpenter Collection, 1920. Web. 14 Nov 2014.

 

Nineteenth-century engraving of rabid dog (artist unknown). In Clancy, Sharon. “The Eradication of Rabies.” 18th-19th Century History, 14.1 (2006). Web. 14 Nov 2014.

Oh! We Are Dying of Hydrophobia: Fear-Crazed Father and Son Bitten by Dog Create Near-Panic. Los Angeles Times. 21 Jul 1914. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Los Angeles Times (1881-1990). Web. 14 Nov 2014.


Owney With Unknown Albany, NY Mail Carrier Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 12-558, National Postal Museum, c.1888. Web. 19 Dec 2014.

 

Owney on the Job, Guarding the Mail Train Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 12-558, National Postal Museum, c.1888. Web. 19 Dec 2014.
 

Peary, Robert E. Breaking camp, pushing the sledges up to the tired dogs. In Peary, Robert E. The North Pole: Its Discovery in 1909 Under the Auspices of the Peary Arctic Club. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1910. Project Gutenberg. Web. 14 Nov 2014.

 

Peary, Robert E. Deck Scene on the Roosevelt. In Peary, Robert E. The North Pole: Its Discovery in 1909 Under the Auspices of the Peary Arctic Club. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1910. Project Gutenberg. Web. 14 Nov 2014.

 

Peary, Robert E. The Dog Market at Cape York. In Peary, Robert E. The North Pole: Its Discovery in 1909 Under the Auspices of the Peary Arctic Club. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1910. Project Gutenberg. Web. 14 Nov 2014.

 

Peary, Robert E. The double team of dogs used with the reconnoitering sledge at the pole, showing their alertness and good condition. In Peary, Robert E. The North Pole: Its Discovery in 1909 Under the Auspices of the Peary Arctic Club. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1910. Project Gutenberg. Web. 14 Nov 2014.

 

Peary, Robert E. Eskimo dogs of the expedition (246 in all) on small island, Etah Fjord. In Peary, Robert E. The North Pole: Its Discovery in 1909 Under the Auspices of the Peary Arctic Club. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1910. Project Gutenberg. Web. 14 Nov 2014.

 

Peary, Robert E. Five Flags at the Pole. In Peary, Robert E. The North Pole: Its Discovery in 1909 Under the Auspices of the Peary Arctic Club. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1910. Project Gutenberg. Web. 14 Nov 2014.

 

Peary,Robert E. King Eskimo Dog. In Peary, Robert E. The North Pole: Its Discovery in 1909 Under the Auspices of the Peary Arctic Club. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1910. Project Gutenberg. Web. 14 Nov 2014.

 

Peary, Robert E. Kudlah, Alias “Misfortune,” with Puppies. In Peary, Robert E. The North Pole: Its Discovery in 1909 Under the Auspices of the Peary Arctic Club. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1910. Project Gutenberg. Web. 14 Nov 2014.

 

Prize Dog Team in the Arctic. Smithsonian Institution Archives, object number A.2009-37, 1911. Web. 14 Nov 2014.

 

The Race Begins (1911). In Alexander, Caroline. "The Man Who Took the Prize." Amundsen, Race to the South Pole. National Geographic, 1 Sept. 2011. Web. 14 Nov. 2014. (National Library of Norway, Picture Collection).

 

Reinagle, Philip. Portrait of an Extraordinary Musical Dog (1805). Wikimedia Commons. Web. 14 Nov 2014.


Riot of Rabies Feared: Eleven Persons Bitten by Dogs During the Month of March. The Chicago Tribune. 27 Mar 1897. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Trinune (1849-1990). Web. 14 Nov 2014.

Sees No Rabies Peril: Commissioner Macfarland is Still Against Muzzling. The Washington Post. 16 Jun 1908. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Washington Post (1877-1997). Web. 14 Nov 2014.
 

Seward and Susitna Mail Team. Smithsonian Institution Archives, object number A.2009-35, 1913. Web. 14 Nov 2014.

 

Transporting US Mail in Alaska. Smithsonian Institution Archives, object number A.2009-38, c.1910. Web. 14 Nov 2014.

 

Undewood & Underwood. Eskimo boy and his faithful dog, in an igloo (representing snow house)—World’s Fair, St. Louis, U.S.A. Digital image of stereographic card. United States Library of Congress Archives, Stereograph Card Collection, c.1904. Web. 14 Nov 2014.

 

Young, S. Hall. Dr. Young and his Dog Team, Iditarod, Feb. 1912. In Young, S. Hall. Adventures in Alaska. New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1919. Project Gutenberg. Web. 14 Nov 2014.

 

 

Image Notes

 

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