ecstatic as the announcer says, “And the winner of this year’s Iditarod race is…” The Iditarod is a sled dog racing competition located in Alaska. The race consists of a 1000 mile course to the village of Nome to celebrate the dog sledding team that delivered crucial medicine to the village of Nome that stopped a fatal diphtheria outbreak. And although some say the the Iditarod is cruel and abusive to dogs, the race should continue because it is an excellent way to commemorate an important event in
In 1925, an epidemic of diphtheria had intruded the small town of Nome, Alaska, and other surrounding villages. During the time there was no way of getting to the small town by ship because the large ice pack intruding the waters and the two planes in Alaska at the time had already been dismantled and had put away for the winter. Alaskan officials had to quickly devise a plan that would save the people affected by the epidemic, many mostly children. They had devised a plan to run sled dog teams from
The Iditarod is a thousand mile dog sled race across Alaska from Anchorage to Nome. It has been coined “The Last Great Race”, and it is known for its adversity. It began in 1973 in an effort to preserve the historic significance of the Iditarod trail. The dogs in the Iditarod are loved and celebrated. However, sled dogs are not only used for racing. Sled dogs played an important role in Alaskan settlement and Alaskan culture. However, the demand and necessity for sled dogs declined after the creation
should be ran in the school, even when they were desperate for her to teach their kids in the secluded town they all found themselves in. The school board needed an educati... ... middle of paper ... ... of Balto, the heroic lead dog of the 1925 Serum Run to Nome, was erected in New York City's Central Park. Also, a year after Anne left Chicken, a court case resolved the right for native children to attend public school with white children. It would be believeable that Anne’s story had something to