Yukon who is who

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Larry “Cowboy” Smith
	
Larry Smith was a wrangler and guide in 1968 when Lorna Walmsley was the camp cook. Smith ran the Iditarod dog race five times between 1980 and 1984. He came in third in 1983 and another time came in forth. In 1983, he got $39,000 in American $1 bills when he was the first musher to reach the Yukon River at Anvik. Smith had the bills stamped with an image of his dog team and made limited editions of them as souvenirs.(("The musher who would be king (reprise)." //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 5 December 2010.)) In 1995, Smith won the Joe Fellers Dawson Award and four ounces of gold donated by Schmidt Mining presented to the first musher in the Yukon Quest sled dog race to reach Dawson. The same year, Smith won the Challenge of the North Award, presented to the musher who best exemplifies the “Spirit of the Yukon Quest” that compels mushers to challenge themselves and persevere. In [date?], Smith’s lead dog won the Golden Harness Award and a meal of raw steak given to champion lead dogs.((Musher Hall of Fame, Yukon Quest, 2020 website:  https://www.yukonquest.com/race-central/yukon-quest-1000-mile/past-results/musher-hall-fame.)) 

One of Smith’s sleds, all of his trophies, and his lead dog’s golden harness are on display at the Bouchard Dog Mushing and Sled Museum in Sunnydale across the Yukon River from Dawson.((Tamara Neely, “A Trip Through Dog Mushing Past and Present: Dawson area resident runs year-round dog mushing museum.” //What’s Up Yukon// (Whitehorse), 15 August 2013.)) The Yukon Archives holds a memorial poster, “Good Luck Cowboy Smith – Iditarod ’84 “produced in 1983 by Chris Caldwell and Jim Robb. The poster includes a poem by p.j.johnson.((Yukon Archives, P-268.))