Early scenes of sled dog racing in Fairbanks, Alaska, likely show famed musher Joseph Stickman of Nulato winning a large trophy. According to the March 10, 1928, issue of "The Kusko Times," Joe Stickman and his team of 12 malemutes won the opening race of the annual Fairbanks Kennel Club Derby in a time of 5 hours and 40 minutes over a 58-mile drifted course. The March 19, 1955, "Fairbanks Daily News-Miner" ran a front page story about Stickman following his untimely death due to a car accident at Annette Island in southeast Alaska. The story noted that Stickman had been known throughout Interior Alaska as a dog team mail carrier and racer who had won the North American dog racing derby at Fairbanks in 1928 despite a stiff knee caused by childhood injury (B&W/Silent/16mm film).

This is a clip from AAF-62 of the Cann-Cathey Collection held by the Alaska Film Archives, a unit of the Alaska and Polar Regions Collections & Archives Department in the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks.

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