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Kävik, an Alaskan malamute sled dog, gets sold from Charlie One-eye to Mr. Hunter for $2,000 after winning the North American Sled-dog race and is loaded on a plane in an iron-barred cage. In the middle of the trip, something goes wrong and the plane crashes into the ground, killing pilot Smiley Johnson before he even has time to undo his ...
- Walt Morey, Peter Parnall
- 1968
A made-for-TV movie called The Courage of Kavik the Wolf Dog based on the book aired under the Sunday Big Event umbrella on NBC in 1979. Plot. Kävik, an Alaskan malamute sled dog, gets sold from Charlie One-eye to Mr. Hunter for $2,000 after winning the North American Sled-dog race and is loaded on a plane in an iron-barred cage. In the middle ...
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Apr 1, 1997 · Kavik is wolf dog, three quarters malamute and one quarter wolf. He had been trained by Charlie One Eye to win the North American Sled Dog Derby at Fairbanks, AK. The dog is then purchased by George C. Hunter, who owns mining and fishing interests in Northern Alaska. However, the plane on which Hunter sends Kavik is downed in a storm.
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- 1968
- Walt Morey, Peter Parnall
- Walt Morey
Apr 1, 1997 · Should he put the gravely injured dog out of his misery? The look in the animal’s eyes says he’s not ready to die. It turns out that Kävik’s a champion sled dog, and soon he makes a full recovery. When his rightful owner finds out Kävik is alive, he wants the dog back. But Kävik has other ideas.
The knockabout, turnabout saga of a wolf dog who loses and regains his courage, heeds and renounces the call of the wild. Raised as a championship lead sled dog, Kavik at two is aloof, obedient and fierce and a prize for Alaskan-artifact collector George Hunter, who buys him to display at his Seattle home.
Dec 21, 2017 · Still fit from his thirty years as a mail carrier, Behm now devotes himself to the Wisconsin Trailblazers Sled Dog Club, the Lions, and a one-acre market garden that he tends with Mel’s mother ...
Summary: A wolf-dog instinctively travels 2000 miles from Washington to Alaska to return to the boy who once saved his life. Swiftly paced, this is the dramatic story of Kavik, a one-quarter-wolf sled dog raised to be a tough, smart, mean champion.
