All of the stories collected here are personal accounts by participants in the Iditarod dog-sled contest, as reported by Lew Freedman, former reporter for the Anchorage Daily News. There are 28
chapters, each one a kind of summary of a musher’s personal experience running the Iditarod. The cross-section includes mostly contest winners and top competitors, but also some of the more
colorful characters who participate, such as Hobo Jim, a country singer who wrote a popular song about the Iditarod; Jon Van Zyle, who makes paintings of dogs and mushers; Aaron Burmeister, who
grew up in Nome and for whom the Iditarod has been a continual part of life; second generation musher Cim Smyth; Newto Marshall, a competitor from Jamaica; and DeeDee Jonrowe, a woman who has
finished second twice. Distributed by Ingram Publisher Services. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
