William Schneider's new book "On Time Delivery" is available!

William Schneider, Professor Emeritus and the previous Curator of Oral History for the University of Alaska Fairbanks, recently published "On Time Delivery - The Dog Team Mail Carriers" (University of Alaska Press) which is based on his research using oral history recordings to document the life of the dog team mail carrier before the advent of airplanes. With the advent and widespread adoption of aviation, many of the trails were abandonded, and a generation of rural Alaskans has now grown up with few ties to the overland trail system that supported their grandparents and inspired modern traditions such as the world-famous Iditarod Race.