mukluk telegraph

English

Noun

mukluk telegraph

1. The spread of information and gossip by word of mouth in rural Alaska.
   • 1995, Dana Stabenow, Play with Fire, →ISBN, page 104:

     He lived here, and although something told her he wasn't a member in good standing of the congregation of the Chistona Little Chapel, maybe he'd heard something over the mukluk telegraph.

   • 2003, Jeff Davis, Fifty-Five Years in the Alaskan Bush: The John Swiss Story, →ISBN, page 92:

     Somehow, over the mukluk telegraph, I got the message and came into town and got him.

   • 2015, Burt Bomhoff, Iditarod Alaska: Life of a Long Distance Sled Dog Musher, →ISBN:

     That along with the friends that I was talking to formed quite a mukluk telegraph for keeping track of the competition.