The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race commemorates this famous delivery.

Famous Two Rivers mushers include 5-time Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race Champion Rick Swenson, the first Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race champion, Sonny Lindner, and only woman to win that race, Aliy Zirkle.

Skwentna is a census-designated place ( CDP ) on Iditarod Trail in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, United States.

Willow is now the official host of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race restart.

Protests led by Elim Students Against Uranium ( ESAU ) have included demonstrations in 2008 and 2009 at the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race ceremonial start, and on the Iditarod trail in Elim.

The annual Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, which finishes in Nome, commemorates the 1925 serum run to Nome | 1925 serum run.

In 1973, Nome became the ending point of the 1, 049 + mi ( 1, 600 + km ) Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race held in honor of the serum run.

He finished the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race numerous times, including a second-place finish.

Unalakleet is the first checkpoint on the Norton Sound in the famous Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race from the start in Anchorage.

* John Baker, top 10 finisher in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race

* Ed Iten, top 10 finisher in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race

Anvik is also the first checkpoint on the Yukon River for the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, when the sled dog race takes a southern route every other year.

Since 1977, the Athabaskan village has seen a surge of interest on odd-numbered years, when it is the site of a checkpoint during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.

The Iditarod Trail also contributed to McGrath's role as a supply center.

* Emmitt Peters-Last rookie to win the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.

* Doug Swingley, four-time winner of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race

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The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is an annual long-distance sled dog race run in early March from Anchorage to Nome.

* 1925 – Serum run to Nome: Dog sleds reach Nome, Alaska with diphtheria serum, inspiring the Iditarod race.

With the support of Joe Redington Sr. ( named the " Father of the Iditarod " by one of the local newspapers ), the first race ( then known as the Iditarod Trail Seppala Memorial Race in honor of Leonhard Seppala ) was held in 1967 and covered near Anchorage.

The trail in turn is named for the town of Iditarod, which was an Athabaskan village before becoming the center of the Inland Empire's Iditarod Mining District in 1910, and then turning into a ghost town at the end of the local gold rush.

Married to educator Kathy Chapoton, Buser named his sons, Nikolai and Rohn, after Iditarod check points.

Seavey, who has run the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race several times, won the Yukon Quest in his rookie year and therefore also was named rookie of the year.

The race was modeled after the 1908 to 1918 All-Alaska Sweepstakes ( AAS ) of Nome, and was named the Iditarod Trail Seppala Memorial Race, after the three-time champion Leonhard Seppala.

She was named the honorary musher during the 1997 Iditarod.

The Iditarod received more attention outside of the state after the 1985 victory of Libby Riddles, a long shot who became the first woman to win the race.

Portions of the Iditarod Trail were used by the Native American Inupiaq and Athabaskan peoples hundreds of years before the arrival of Russian fur traders in the 1800s, but the trail reached its peak between the late 1880s and the mid 1920s as miners arrived to dig coal and later gold, especially after the Alaska gold rushes at Nome in 1898, and at the " Inland Empire " along the Kuskokwim Mountains between Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers, in 1908.

Nine months after the route was surveyed, two prospectors made a ‘ Christmas Day Strike ’ in the Iditarod Mining District, and the last great gold rush was on.

One hundred years after its heyday, some variation of the entire Historic Iditarod Trail from Seward to Nome is still open to the public.

The official name of the event was the Iditarod Trail Seppala Memorial Race, after the three-time Sweepstakes champion Leonhard Seppala.

The Junior Iditarod Sled Dog Race, or Jr. Iditarod, is a 148 to 158 mile ( 222 km ) sled dog race for mushers between the ages of 14 through 17, which is patterned after the 1, 049 mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.

Mitch Seavey after winning the 2004 Iditarod.

Passing through the historic town of Iditarod was a secondary benefit.

New winter mail contracts bypassed the fading town of Iditarod in favor of more direct routes to Nome, and World War I drew young miners and workers away from the gold fields.

Every odd year ( i. e., 2011 ), the race travels the south route from Ophir to Kaltag through the ghost town of Iditarod.

Redington wanted to expand the race, from Knik to the historic gold rush town of Iditarod, but changed the end-point to the more-recognizable Nome, more than 1, 000 miles ( 1, 600 km ) away.