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Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as iditarod)
avg rating 4.29 — 9,032 ratings — published 1994
Race Across Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as iditarod)
avg rating 4.13 — 913 ratings — published 1987
Woodsong (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as iditarod)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,154 ratings — published 1990
Four Thousand Paws: Caring for the Dogs of the Iditarod: A Veterinarian's Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as iditarod)
avg rating 4.35 — 704 ratings — published
Fast into the Night: A Woman, Her Dogs, and Their Journey North on the Iditarod Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as iditarod)
avg rating 4.10 — 689 ratings — published 2016
Akiak: A Tale From the Iditarod (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as iditarod)
avg rating 4.18 — 382 ratings — published 1997
Iditarod Dreams: A Year in the Life of Alaskan Sled Dog Racer Deedee Jonrowe (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as iditarod)
avg rating 3.80 — 69 ratings — published 1995
This Much Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as iditarod)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,851 ratings — published 2019
Bravest Dog Ever: Story of Balto (Library Binding)
by (shelved 4 times as iditarod)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,130 ratings — published 1989
Beyond Ophir: Confessions of an Iditarod Musher, An Alaska Odyssey (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as iditarod)
avg rating 3.82 — 38 ratings — published 2013
Adventures of the Iditarod Air Force: True Stories About the Pilots Who Fly for Alaska's Famous Sled Dog Race (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as iditarod)
avg rating 3.53 — 19 ratings — published 1997
Storm Run: The Story of the First Woman to Win the Iditarod Sled Dog Race (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as iditarod)
avg rating 4.18 — 107 ratings — published 2003
Father of the Iditarod: The Joe Redington Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as iditarod)
avg rating 3.85 — 41 ratings — published 1996
Susan Butcher and the Iditarod Trail (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as iditarod)
avg rating 4.19 — 48 ratings — published 1992
The Great Serum Race: Blazing the Iditarod Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as iditarod)
avg rating 4.22 — 154 ratings — published 2002
Epic Solitude: A Story of Survival and a Quest for Meaning in the Far North (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as iditarod)
avg rating 3.86 — 545 ratings — published 2020
Dog Man: Chronicles of an Iditarod Champion (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as iditarod)
avg rating 4.47 — 119 ratings — published 2015
Painter and Ugly (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as iditarod)
avg rating 3.72 — 161 ratings — published 2011
Cold Hands, Warm Heart: Alaskan Adventures of an Iditarod Champion (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as iditarod)
avg rating 4.28 — 341 ratings — published 2008
Stone Fox (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as iditarod)
avg rating 4.04 — 20,338 ratings — published 1980
Iditarod Dream: Dusty and His Sled Dogs Compete in Alaska's Jr. Iditarod (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as iditarod)
avg rating 4.07 — 42 ratings — published 1996
The Last Great Race: The Iditarod (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as iditarod)
avg rating 4.08 — 24 ratings — published 1982
On Thin Ice (T-FLAC, #6; Wright Family, #5)
by (shelved 3 times as iditarod)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,354 ratings — published 2004
Iditarod Fact Book: A Complete Guide to the Last Great Race (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as iditarod)
avg rating 3.73 — 11 ratings — published 2001
Running With Champions: A Midlife Journey on the Iditarod Trail (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as iditarod)
avg rating 4.23 — 145 ratings — published 2006
Kiana's Iditarod (Last Wilderness Adventure)
by (shelved 3 times as iditarod)
avg rating 3.83 — 64 ratings — published 1984
Back of the Pack: An Iditarod Rookie Musher's Alaska Pilgrimage to Nome (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as iditarod)
avg rating 4.12 — 40 ratings — published 1996
One Second to Glory: The Alaska Adventures of Iditarod Champion Dick Mackey (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as iditarod)
avg rating 3.63 — 27 ratings — published 2001
The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as iditarod)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,842 ratings — published 2003
Mush! Sled Dogs of the Iditarod (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as iditarod)
avg rating 3.71 — 42 ratings — published 2013
Mush! Across Alaska in the World's Longest Sled-Dog Race (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as iditarod)
avg rating 3.65 — 31 ratings — published 1992
The First Great Race (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as iditarod)
avg rating 4.02 — 41 ratings — published 2013
Iditarod Adventures: Tales from Mushers Along the Trail (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as iditarod)
avg rating 3.54 — 24 ratings — published 2015
Iditarod Nights (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as iditarod)
avg rating 3.31 — 105 ratings — published 2013
The Lance Mackey Story 1st edition by Lance Mackey (2010) Paperback
by (shelved 2 times as iditarod)
avg rating 4.32 — 100 ratings — published 2010
A Tale of Two Iditarods (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as iditarod)
avg rating 3.07 — 14 ratings — published 2008
Alone Across the Arctic: One Woman's Epic Journey by Dog Team (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as iditarod)
avg rating 4.15 — 192 ratings — published 2001
Black Star, Bright Dawn (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as iditarod)
avg rating 3.74 — 1,583 ratings — published 1988
Running North: A Yukon Adventure (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as iditarod)
avg rating 4.09 — 214 ratings — published 1998
Murder on the Iditarod Trail (Alex Jensen / Jessie Arnold, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as iditarod)
avg rating 3.95 — 4,743 ratings — published 1991
My Lead Dog Was a Lesbian: Mushing Across Alaska in the Iditarod--the World's Most Grueling Race (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as iditarod)
avg rating 3.75 — 237 ratings — published 1996
Iditarod: The Great Race to Nome (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as iditarod)
avg rating 4.25 — 40 ratings — published 1991
More Iditarod Classics: Tales of the Trail Told by the Men & Women Who Race Across Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as iditarod)
avg rating 3.78 — 18 ratings — published 2004
Togo Takes the Lead: Heroic Sled Dog of the Alaska Serum Run (Heroic Animals)
by (shelved 1 time as iditarod)
avg rating 3.92 — 13 ratings — published
Real Americans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as iditarod)
avg rating 3.94 — 99,214 ratings — published 2024
Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against "The Apocalypse" (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as iditarod)
avg rating 4.03 — 440 ratings — published 2024
Marker to Marker: A Woman's Journey of Purpose and Perseverance Amidst Adversity (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as iditarod)
avg rating 4.50 — 64 ratings — published
“The early Iditarod dogs were tough and hearty and so were the people who ran these teams. The first races took many days/weeks. During these early Iditarod runs, there were no headlights, no booties except the rare hand-sewn seal-skin bootie, no reflective trail markers (spruce boughs if anything), no quick-change runners, and no pre-race drop-bags assigned to each checkpoint. The mushers that ran were experts in survivalist arctic living and elite dog-men; many times these individuals were the trail-breakers as Iditarod was a trail and not a highway at that time. I remember air dropping dog food to the mushers at Poorman, they were snowshoeing in front of their teams. Mushers camped ang rested at night. The dogs were more trap-line dogs than anything. Today's Iditarod dogs are trained better and selected for more speed. (From the foreword by Terry O. Adkins)”
― The First Great Race: Alaska's 1973 Iditarod
― The First Great Race: Alaska's 1973 Iditarod
“The offshore north wind built to a gale force. My poor dogs. They would hit a wind-polished spot, loose traction, and literally get rolled into a knot, requiring a frustrating untangling, under something lessthan good picnic conditions. Other times, away would go the sled skidding sideways, with me firmly attached, until it struck an immoveable drift or a crusted snow patch, and over I went, taking the entire team with me, ending, one time, a half block off the trail. Wha, storm. What an experience. Blinding and, at times, breath-sucking Dangerous, scary, but exciting and exhilarating at the same time. One remembrance I have kept—all these years—is thankfulness for the relatively mild temperature at the time. And another is an absolute, set-it-in-concrete admiration for my dogs. In the course of many untangles I rearranged my front end. Genghis, my old faithful, went in front with Kiana. Bandit was placed back in swing. We went. In spite of roll! overs, roll-ups, wraparounds, and tangles, we went. And even when a couple of males—Kuchik and Casper—repeatedly attempted to dive behind snowdrifts, out of the punishing tempest, we went. How gratifying it was to witness my years of training pay off. Uncounted hours: back on Kenai Lake and Resurrection River flats, driving this never-say-die team head-on into fiendish, violent snowstorms.”
― The First Great Race: Alaska's 1973 Iditarod
― The First Great Race: Alaska's 1973 Iditarod
