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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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There’s more than one way to win the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. There’s the obvious, up-front way: Just beat all the other mushers to the finish line in Nome and claim the first place victory, the championship. That comes with some nice perks, including a check for $50,000 and the keys to a...
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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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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 Norton Sound Sled Dog Club was established by local mushers in 1971 to support dog mushing in the village and region. The annual Norton Sound Portage 200 race, started in 1973, goes from Unalakleet to Kaltag and return. Now the Norton Sound Sled Dog Club is proud to announce a new race, the...
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Craig Medred has written about the Iditarod perhaps more than any other single writer, gathering numerous awards as he made the race come alive for his readers; in 1992 he was named one of the best sports writers in America for his Iditarod coverage. An Alaska Dispatch staff writer, Craig added to his considerable...
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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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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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How Alaska’s very own movie star filmed one of the state’s most historic and famous mushing events: Ray Mala, the first Alaskan and Native American film star and the focus of Lael Morgan’s book Eskimo Star: From the Tundra to Tinseltown, the Ray Mala Story, published in 2011 by Epicenter Press, is in the...
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