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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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Backstage Iditarod, 2nd Edition, by Wasilla author June Price, is the most in-depth and comprehensive guidebook available for the Last Great Race on Earth, the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, which runs 1,000 miles across Alaska, from Anchorage to Nome, every March. In December, 2006, June shared a post on one of her blogs...
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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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There are dozens of ways to follow the teams in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, but one of the most interesting and rewarding, and perhaps little-known, are the Trail Notes written by bush pilot Don Bowers in 1998 and 1999. The chief pilot for Talkeetna’s Hudson Air Taxi who’d learned his skills as...
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“The Last Great Race,” part of the “World About Us” series, is a one-hour documentary about the 1979 running of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, uploaded to YouTube by the daughter of one of the co-producers. The 1979 Iditarod racers included Joe Redington, Sr., Susan Butcher, Rick Swenson, Emmitt Peters, Joe May, Rick Mackey, Terry...
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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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The 2012 Knik 200-Joe Redington Sr. Memorial Sled Dog Race came to an exciting, crowd-pleasing, but confusing finish on Sunday afternoon when four-time Iditarod champion Lance Mackey raced under the finish banner only moments ahead of 2010 Copper Basin 300 champion Jake Berkowitz. As the two teams swept out of the woods and down...
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There are many strange and unusual stories in the annals of northern sled dog travel, but one of the most fascinating concerns an enigmatic Japanese explorer and adventurer named Jujiro Wada. Born in Japan in the 1870s, the second son of a lower-class samurai warrior, he traveled to the U.S. in 1890 and worked as a cabin...
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Trailbreakers: Pioneering Alaska’s Iditarod, Volume 1: Blazing the Last Great Gold Rush Trail 1840-1930, by Rod Perry. This book is, according to the author, ”The most authentic, thorough treatment ever given the gold rush history of the old Iditarod Trail, done as only one who is not only a master writer, story teller and historian...
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