Introducing Malemute Joe Henderson

By Thom “Swanny” Swan

From the March-April, 2020 Alaskan History Magazine:

Joe breaking trail toward Barter Island.  [Photo by Andrea Loveland]

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." Ralph Waldo Emerson

My home community of Two Rivers, Alaska is perched on the very edge of civilization. Traveling due north from my back door I c…