A statement on the competition's Web site describes the "canine athletes": "Quest sled dogs are elite, marathon athletes. Bred from stock that survived and thrived during the Klondike Gold Rush ...

Dawson City was once the thriving mecca of the Klondike gold rush ... communities were using dogs to pull sleds in the Arctic Circle. But it was during the gold-rush era that dogs were bred ...

Recent screen adaptations of Jack London's famed 1903 novel about the Klondike Gold Rush have featured Buck ... sold into the dangerous life of a sled dog, Buck is described by London as a ...

Grauman and his father, David, made their fortune during the Klondike gold rush — not from gold ... copper-topped turrets and giant stone Heaven Dogs, which guard the entrance.

Godon Buchanan and lead sled dog Yukon on the right In this new ... following in the footsteps of the Scottish Klondike gold-rush explorers who used this trail over 100 years ago.

This is one for me. Buck, a massive St. Bernard crossbreed, falls prey to the surging demand for sled dogs created by the ...

It read "Gold, Gold, Gold - A Ton of Gold." Few prospectors made it rich during the Klondike Gold Rush. By the time most ... dug from the snow, put on a sled and hauled to the morgue.