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chained_bear commented on the word malamute chorus
"The majority of the residents in Nome owned their own team, and the dogs seemed to rule the streets. At one point dogs became such a hazard that the town passed a law requiring them to wear bells. There were more dogs than people and their howls, known as 'the malamute chorus,' could always be heard throughout the night. The dogs of Nome were almost as important as the citizens. Many roamed free when they were not working and some accompanied their masters into the saloons. An attorney named Albert Fink, who years later would defend Al Capone, would tip his hat whenever he passed a husky he particularly respected, and he once managed to persuade a jury that his sled dog Peg was acting in self-defense when he slaughtered twenty-eight sheep owned by the Pacific Cold Storage Company."
--Gay Salisbury and Laney Salisbury, The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race against an Epidemic (NY and London: W.W. Norton & Co., 2003), 21-22
January 24, 2017
chained_bear commented on the word malamute chorus
"It may sound pretty to them but it's a mighty lonesome sound the first few times a man hears it. ... It sounded like it trickled through a gross of graveyards ... but I loved to listen to 'em."
--The Star Press (Muncie, Indiana), 17 March 1907, p. 21
January 31, 2017