Answer:
1. During the gold rush, many men traveled to the Yukon region in Canada to search for gold.
2. The only means of travel to get to the Yukon was through the snow.
3. But the snow was too deep and some hills too steep for horses or mules.
4. Therefore, sled dogs were highly valued as they could cross the landscape.
5. Thus we have the context here for our story about the sled dog spot.
6. As seen in the text, Dogs were high, and we paid one hundred and ten dollars for him.”
7. As the story states,''He weighed sixty pounds, and he had all the lines of a good sled animal.”
