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Iditarod
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Iditarod (īdĭt`ərŏd'), abandoned town in SW Alaska, site of a 1908 gold rush, on the Iditarod River. The town site and river lie on the

Iditarod National Historic Trail, 2,350 mi (3,781 km) long, a gold-seekers' route from Seward to Nome (see National Parks and Monuments National Parks and Monuments

National Parks
Name Type1 Location Year authorized Size

acres (hectares)
Description
Acadia NP SE Maine 1919 48,419 (19,603) Mountain and coast scenery.
..... Click the link for more information. , table), and on the route of the

Iditarod Race, an annual dogsled competition that runs 1,160 mi (1,868 km) from Anchorage to Nome. The race commemorates a medical mission undertaken by dog sled during a 1925 diphtheria epidemic. First held in 1973, the Iditarod is run in March and draws some 50 drivers and teams, with the winner taking 9–11 days to complete the course.

Bibliography

See G. and L. Salisbury, The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic (2003).



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The focus is mostly on the wild side of Alaska, but the movie also has brief footage of the present-day native peoples of Alaska, engaged in whaling and in running the Iditerod, the 1,000-mile dog sled race.
`ALASKA' AN EXHILARATING RIDE THROUGH VITAL, PRISTINE TERRITORY by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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