WHITE SOX

“In they plunged, together, in too great a hurry to notice the resinous substance.” (See page 24.)

Animal Life Series WHITE SOX The Story of the Reindeer in Alaska By William T. Lopp Superintendent of Education of Natives of Alaska Formerly Chief of Alaska Division United States Bureau of Education and Superintendent of Reindeer in Alaska Illustrated with drawings by H. Boylston Dummer

1924 Yonkers-on-Hudson, New York WORLD BOOK COMPANY 2126 Prairie Avenue, Chicago

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To the minds of most children and a good many older persons, reindeer suggest Santa Claus, and no more. But the reindeer is one of man’s very necessary domestic animals; it affords a means for reclaiming vast sub-Arctic regions that now lie waste; and in Alaska the government of the United States has introduced reindeer and encouraged the raising of them, till now they are a source of wealth to the territory. To tell the story of the reindeer in our northerly territory is the purpose of the present little volume. Mr. William T. Lopp, the author, has been concerned with the government’s work in giving the reindeer to the natives of Alaska since the work was begun in the ’90’s, and it was he who drove a herd of reindeer seven hundred miles for the relief of the whalers at Point Barrow in 1897. This story of White Sox is, then, the work of an authority on the reindeer; and the publishers feel that it is worthy of its place in Animal Life Series beside Matka, Dr. David Starr Jordan’s classic story of the fur seal

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