Picking up where the best-selling IDITAROD CLASSICS left off, MORE IDITAROD CLASSICS introduces readers to more of the men and women who brave the 1,100-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race from Anchorage to Nome. And do they ever have stories to tell! In their own words, champions and lesser knowns share their very best stories--how they came to love the race, train their dogs and themselves, and battle all manner of winter hardships challenging the elements in what some have called the most extreme long-distance competition in the world.
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Lew Freedman has written more than a dozen books about Alaska. A former sports editor at the Anchorage Daily News, Freedman is now outdoors-adventure writer for the Chicago Tribune.
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exciting vignettes from Iditarod veterans,
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I've read a lot of books about the Iditarod, but this one really stands out. Before I read this book, all of the mushers sort of ran together in my head. Now I have a sense of them as individuals. Susan Butcher, Joe Redington, The Mackey Dynasty, Martin Buser, and others share their thoughts on this "last great race". Their stories are all inspirational, yet all unique. It's amazing to think of all these people dedicated to traveling over 1,000 miles by dog sled, risking their lives for relatively little return. It takes a special type of person to take on the Iditarod.
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It took Howard Farley, seventy-one, of Nome, more than a month to complete the first Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in 1973 when he was already an old-timer of forty, but it was one of the grandest months of his life. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
hundred miles into the race, other mushers, first musher, sled bag, dog team, fifteen dogs, race record, twenty dogs, dog mushers, sled dog race, sprint races, lucky penny Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
White Mountain, Yukon Quest, Doug Swingley, Jeff King, Martin Buser, Joe Redington, Yukon River, Rick Swenson, Finger Lake, Front Street, Rainy Pass, Susan Butcher, Van Zyle, Bering Sea, Charlie Boulding, John Baker, Jerry Riley, Joe Garnie, Ramy Brooks, Vern Halter, Bruce Lee, Eagle River, Jon Little, Rick Mackey, Eagle Island New!
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It took Howard Farley, seventy-one, of Nome, more than a month to complete the first Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in 1973 when he was already an old-timer of forty, but it was one of the grandest months of his life. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
hundred miles into the race, other mushers, first musher, sled bag, dog team, fifteen dogs, race record, twenty dogs, dog mushers, sled dog race, sprint races, lucky penny Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
White Mountain, Yukon Quest, Doug Swingley, Jeff King, Martin Buser, Joe Redington, Yukon River, Rick Swenson, Finger Lake, Front Street, Rainy Pass, Susan Butcher, Van Zyle, Bering Sea, Charlie Boulding, John Baker, Jerry Riley, Joe Garnie, Ramy Brooks, Vern Halter, Bruce Lee, Eagle River, Jon Little, Rick Mackey, Eagle Island New!
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- Father of the Iditarod - The Joe Reddington Story by Lew Freedman in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Spirit of the Wind: The Story of George Attla, Alaska's Legendary Sled Dog Sprint Champ by Lew Freedman in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Diamonds in the Rough by Lew Freedman in Front Matter
- Iditarod Silver by Lew Freedman in Front Matter
- A Far Distant Place by Danielle Thomas on page 165
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