Arthur Treadwell Walden (1871 - 1947)
	
Arthur Walden was born in Indianapolis, Indiana to Reverend Treadwell Walden and his wife Elizabeth Leighton. Arthur spent his youth in Minnesota and attended the Chattuck Military School in Faribault. In 1890, his father was appointed to St. Paul’s Cathedral in Boston and Arthur went to live at the family cottage in Tamworth, New Hampshire. He travelled to the Yukon River basin in March 1896, the year that gold was discovered on Bonanza Creek.((Arthur Treadwell Walden.” //Wikipedia,// 2019 website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Treadwell_Walden))
	
Walden travelled from Juneau to Dyea with cheechakos and sourdoughs, all broke after a winter spent in the States. When Walden reached Forty Mile in December, he heard about the rich find and was among the first to take the news down to Circle, Alaska in January 1897. Walden worked during the summer of 1897 for the Alaska Commercial Co. as a stevedore, and he cut wood and rafted it down river in the summer of 1900.((Arthur T. Walden, //A Dog-Puncher on the Yukon.//  The Riverside Press Cambridge, 1928: xv, 1-2, 69, 181.))
	
Walden returned to New Hampshire and he and Katherine Sleeper were married in 1902. She was from a wealthy Boston newspaper family. The couple operated a 1300-acre farm and inn and Walden started training and breeding sled dogs called Chinooks. A local newspaper sponsored the first 123-mile Eastern International Dog Derby in 1922 and Walden founded the New England Sled Dog Club in 1924. The Chinook became the state dog of New Hampshire.((Arthur Treadwell Walden.” //Wikipedia,// 2019 website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Treadwell_Walden))
	
In 1927, Richard Byrd hired Walden to handle the dog teams during his Antarctic Expedition. Walden agreed to go after he was assured that no dogs would be shot to save supplies, as had been done on previous expeditions. Some members of the expedition trained at Walden’s farm during the winter of 1927-1928. Walden published his memoir //A Dog-Puncher in the Yukon// in 1928.((Arthur Treadwell Walden.” //Wikipedia,// 2019 website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Treadwell_Walden))
	
During the Antarctic Expedition, Walden and his thirteen dogs moved thousands of pounds of supplies sixteen miles from the ship to the base camp. He received the Congressional Medal in 1931 for his efforts. Arthur Walden died after saving his wife from a fire in the kitchen of their farmhouse.((Arthur Treadwell Walden.” //Wikipedia,// 2019 website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Treadwell_Walden))