Rex of whiteway - The Samoyed legend
From March 8-12, 2020, all 5 Amazon Kindle books from Rex the Blizzard King Stories, LLC will be free. Feel free to cross post.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07WLQ8LLY (The Story of Rex of White Way for Young Readers)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078PVGDMS (Samoyed Tales Trilogy") by Cheskawich, Reid and West
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LXCMY8A (Vietnam Memoir)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MRL4VDR (Jim Osborn Statistical Study)https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00B0N2V6W(The Story of Rex of White Way, The Blizzard King)
What Balto and Togo is to Siberian Huskies, Rex is to Samoyeds.
January 1952: Somewhere in the snowy passes of the Sierra Mountains, the City of San Francisco luxury passenger train was making its long journey through a fierce snowstorm. One last clatter, and the train became trapped at the snowy summit of Donner Pass with 226 passengers onboard.The Southern Pacific Railway desperately tried to free the train from its snowy captivity, but the strong gusts of snow thwarted all their efforts. There was no food or medical supplies, and the fuel for heating the passenger compartments was running low.
The sled dogs were the only hope. The Southern Pacific called upon Lloyd Van Sickle, one of the country's best sled dog handlers, for help.
Van Sickle knew he would need his best dogs for this challenging mission.The problem was that his lead dog, Rex of White Way, was hundreds of miles away in San Francisco, preparing to enter the show ring at the Golden Gate Dog Show with his owner, Agnes Mason.
As soon as Mason received the call, she immediately recalled her dogs from the show, and with Rex at the forefront, she rushed to assist Van Sickle in rescuing the stranded passengers of the luxury train.
Jim Cheskawich, a Samoyed historian and former president of the Samoyed Club of America (SCA), considers Rex to be the epitome of the breed. He says, "[His legacy was to demonstrate how a well-trained and willing Samoyed can perform in various situations." Cheskawich recently published a book about this four-legged American hero titled "The Story of Rex of White Way."
"Rex excelled as a working dog, serving as a lead dog on a regular 64-mile-long postal route in Idaho, crossing a 7200-meter-high mountain pass, participating in over 30 rescue missions, and being unbeatable in Samoyed sled dog races."
White Way kennel, Rex family
Rex's Rescue at Yuba Gap in January of 1952 was in an area where the train tracks used to be according to 2 California residents from nearby Truckee who know the area well. In her painting, Nan Holt captured the descent down the mountain side to the snow bound train. This is what the terrain still looks like and Rex's approach is believed to have come diagonally from the upper right to bottom left of the scene. I posted a similar pic on Sammy Collectibles but not everyone is on that list.Alla reaktioner:11Lotta Eriksson, Lynn Hornbein och 9 andra