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Vixen and the USSR - Sue Steinacher

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“My most favorite thing in life had been seeing Alaska from the back of a dogsled, pulled by my nine best friends.”

Photo by Kerry Tasker

Sue Steinacher fights USSR bureaucracy with dog-diplomacy.

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Jun 26, 2018

Anchorage, Alaska

Feb 08, 2017

13:34

The team.

Sue and Lonya.

Diomedes in Winter.

Vixen & the Glasnost pups.

Vixen's homecoming.

A drawing of Vixen.

Crash at Uelen.

Diomedes with Russian mainland.