On This Day 60 Years Ago: The Championship Sled Dog Races On The Gulkana River

Sixty Years Ago, There Were Championship Dog Races In Gulkana 

Races Were Sponsored By The Alaska Native Brotherhood   

Gulkana Roadhouse in summertime, 1944.  (Alaska Digital Archives) 

On March 1st, 2nd and 3rd in 1963, Gulkana Village, sponsored by the Alaska Native Brotherhood, held sled dog races on the river. The races were known as the "Copper Valley Championship Sled Dog Races" and proceeds went "to Worthwhile Causes." 

Hector Ewan was the spokesman, and there were also raffles and snowshoe races. 

1963 advertisement in the Copper River Current, an early Copper Valley newspaper.