Dogs have been sporadically used in harnesses for several millennia and continuously by the Inuit (Thulé) culture since the end of the first millennium AD. In Europe, their use, which dates back to the year one thousand, spread in the nineteenth century leading to measures of restriction and prohibition of the police prefectures of Versailles or Paris around 1824. In 1897, fifty-nine French departments still allowed the circulation of dog cars while twenty-eight formally prohibited it. As for the dog sleds (photo), they became popular during the Alaska Gold Rush between 1896 and 1899.