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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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Along Alaskan Trails, Adventures in Sled Dog History, by Helen Hegener, is a collection of true stories about Alaskan sled dogs and the role they played in the development of the north, with dozens of historic photos from the archives of the Alaska State Library, the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and other sources. The...
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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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The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is the premier event in mushing, a 1,000 mile race across some of the toughest and wildest terrain on Earth. Fans are fond of pointing out that more people have made it to the summit of Mt. Everest than have finished this grueling race. Now 2012 Iditarod Champion...
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This review appeared at our old Northern Light Media site in March, 2010: I recently received a comment from a reader, Drid Williams, who asked at the end of her note if I’d reviewed Mitch Seavey’s recent book, Lead, Follow or Get Out of the Way! I said no, I hadn’t, and she replied with the letter...
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When Joe Redington needed assistance relocating and marking the historic but long-forgotten Iditarod Trail in 1972, in preparation for the epic race he’d envisioned and was working to make a reality, he turned to the U.S. Army and forged a cooperative venture in which the Army helped put in the trail while gaining valuable...
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Since 1997 Northern Light Media has been tracking sled dog races in Alaska and the Yukon, closely following the Iditarod, the Yukon Quest, and the centennial running of the famous All Alaska Sweepstakes, the oldest organized sled dog race in the world. Many shorter races are tracked annually as well, including the Alaska Excursions...
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The 2009 Mushing History Conference, presented by Northern Light Media, took place Nov 6-8, at the University of Alaska, Anchorage, and at the Iditarod Trail Headquarters and the Grand View Hotel, in Wasilla, Alaska. The 2009 Conference brought together many veteran mushers, along with a broad assortment of authors, historians, researchers, storytellers, writers and photographers...
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