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The historic All Alaska Sweepstakes is the subject of All Alaska Sweepstakes: History of the Great Sled Dog Race, by Helen Hegener, now in a new edition, revised with 60 pages of new content and photographs. Hundreds of beautiful photos by Jan DeNapoli, Joe May, Donna Quante and others tell the story of the...
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My current project is a reprinting of my 2010 book, All Alaska Sweepstakes: 2008 Centennial Race. No major changes, just moving the book to a different format and cleaning up a few typos in the original, but working on it has been good preparation for another long-term project, an in-depth book on the entire...
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The Matanuska Colony Barns is scheduled for publication May 10, 2013 by Northern Light Media. The retail price of the book will be $29.00 (plus $4.50 postage & handling), but a pre-publication special is available until May 10: $24.00 (plus $4.50 postage & handling) for this beautiful book detailing the history of the Colony...
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It’s been my good fortune to live in the Matanuska Valley off and on for over 40 years, and the Matanuska Colony barns have always been a part of my life in Alaska. Driving the roads around Palmer and Wasilla one often sees the old structures, glimpsed down a tree-lined lane or silhouetted against...
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One could say they’re the ‘reason for the season,’ the beautiful stout-hearted huskies which make the sport of sled dog racing possible. With photos from several 2012 mid- and long-distance races, here is Northern Light Media’s tribute to the sled dogs as we roll into the 2012/2013 season: Huskies at the 2012 Iditarod...
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Dog Barns The first shelters for animals in Alaska were likely the small crudely-built dog barns for the passenger, freight, and mail dogteams which traveled the winter trails. When staying in one place for a length of time, dog drivers would construct rough canvas tents for their teams, and many owners built dog barns...
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Anyone who travels through the eastern part of Alaska’s dramatically beautiful Matanuska Valley soon finds a Colony barn enhancing the landscape. These striking Valley landmarks are the enduring legacy of an all-but-forgotten chapter in American history, when the U.S. government took a direct hand in the lives of thousands of its citizens, offering Depression-distraught...
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Excerpted from the book Along Alaskan Trails: Adventures in Sled Dog History, by Helen Hegener (2012, Northern Light Media): The Canadian Arctic Expedition, organized in July, 1913 under the leadership of explorer and anthropologist Vilhjalmur Stefansson, was designed to be the most comprehensive scientific study of the Arctic ever attempted, comprised of a multi-pronged...
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Yukon Quest Album 1,000 miles across northern Alaska and the Yukon Territory The Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race spans some of the harshest winter territory on the planet: 1,000 miles between Fairbanks, Alaska and the city of Whitehorse in Canada’s Yukon Territory. Known as ‘The World’s Toughest Sled Dog Race,’ it’s an event like...
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Ballad of the Northland is an epic Alaskan tale, spinning the story of a legend, “The Boy,” who grows up on the Yentna River in the foothills of the Alaska Range, hunting, trapping, learning to drive a dogteam and learning to get by in a harsh world where survival is never taken for granted. There’s...
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