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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 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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This weekend the mid-distance sled dog racing begins in earnest with the venerable Sheep Mountain 150 and the relatively new but exciting Alaska Excursions 120. The Alaska Excursions 120, a race started by Robert Murphy and Ryan Redington in 2009, offers an impressive purse of $10,000. For many years both men had dreamed of...
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When an intrepid musher and his fast-moving team wins the premier sled dog race in the world — the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska — the trophy presented to honor their achievement is a 95-pound bronze sculpture depicting race founder Joe Redington, Sr. The artist was Bill Devine, a...
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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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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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