The History of Mushing

The 2009 Mushing History Conference is developing well as the organizers work toward bringing together authors, historians, researchers, w...

Lance Mackey with his leaders, Larry and Maple, after winning his third Iditarod race, March, 2009. Photo by Theresa Daily, Daily's Web...

This weekend the Don Bowers Memorial 200/300 Mile Sled Dog Race has been running between Willow and Trapper Creek, Alaska. I found an intere...

This black and white film clip from 1949, titled "Eskimo Hunters (Northwestern Alaska)," shows an Eskimo family in Point Hope, A...

Long before carbon fiber components and quick-change runners … …there lived a culture of people - the ancestors of today’s ci...

Teams of Inuit Sled Dogs, seen here in the traditional fan hitch, were and still are largely comprised of all males, with no more than one...

We are delighted to provide this in-depth article on the earliest sled dog history, reprinted with kind permission from the author, Swanny, ...