Winterdance tells the story of how Gary Paulsen came to compete in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
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The Coldfoot truck stop was founded by Iditarod champion Dick Mackey who started his operation by selling hamburgers out of a converted school bus.
He died in Alaska while shooting a documentary about the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, when the Cessna 185 aircraft carrying him, two Spanish cameramen and the American pilot crashed, killing all on board.
The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, named after the now-abandoned town of Iditarod, commemorates the last great goldrush in America to the Iditarod gold fields and the critical role that dogs played in the settlement and development of Alaska.
Dorothy G. Page (1921–1989), known as "Mother of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race"