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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a method of harnessing sled dogs. See 1956 quote.
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1770
[They make use of any number of dogs, as occasion may require: and their thongs are of different lengths; always minding that the dog which is best trained, has the longest.]
1936
. . . and there can be no doubt in rough difficult climbing, or while on thin or broken ice and on detached floes of open leads, the fan hitch ranks supreme.
1956
In the eastern Arctic the fan hitch is used, the lead dog having the longest trace and running out in front of the others; they, on shorter traces, fan out on each side.
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