Esther Birdsall Darling
Esther Birdsall Darling was an American author and poet; she also opened and ran a sled dog kennel in Alaska.
She studied at
Darling and Scotty Allan established a sled dog kennel in Nome and organized the first long distance dogsled race. Descendants of Baldy, and other dogs from the Darling-Allen Kennel, were purchased by the French military in World War I and transported to Europe where they worked pulling vehicles and carrying messages and cargo. In 1917, the dogs were awarded a military medal, and Darling received it on their behalf.[2][1]
Her books include Baldy of Nome, about a champion sled dog, and a series of followups.
In 2009, at the Mushing History Conference, a presentation on Darling was given by Jane Haigh.
Bibliography
- Up in Alaska (1912)
- Baldy of Nome: An Immortal of the Trail (1913)
- The Break-Up (1928)
- Navarre of the North (1930)
- No Boundary Line (1942)
- Boris (1942)
- Luck of the Trail (1947)
References
- ^ ISBN 9781467132763 – via Google Books.)
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link - ^ a b "Esther Birdsall Darling" (PDF). placercountyhistoricalsociety.org. Retrieved 2021-04-16.
- ^ "Forget-me-not". Alaska.org.
- ^ "Esther Birdsall Darling". 2010 Mushing History Conference.
- ^ "Memoirs of Scotty Allan, includes historical photographs" (PDF). anchoragemuseum.org. August 5, 1994. Retrieved 2021-04-16.
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