Iditarod Adventures

"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 . 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." Eithne O'Leyne, ProtoView

Lew Freedman is a veteran newspaper sportswriter and experienced author of more than seventy books. He spent seventeen years at the ANCHORAGE DAILY NEWS in Alaska and wrote extensively about the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. He has also written several books about the Iditarod and had stories appear in ALASKA MAGAZINE and Alaska Airlines magazine. Freedman has also worked for the CHICAGO TRIBUNE and PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER. A frequent traveler to Alaska, Freedman believes the Iditarod is one of the worlds great sporting events and only wishes the dogs could talk so he could better write their story. www.LewFreedmanBooks.com Jon Van Zyle has been the official artist of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race for more than thirty years and has run the race twice. Jons art has garnered him numerous honors, and his prints, posters, and lithographs are prized by collectors. Jon and his wife live in Alaska, where they maintain a dog team of Siberian huskies. www.jonvanzyle.com

Introduction Chapter 1 Martin Buser Chapter 2 Jeff King Chapter 3 Dan Seavey Chapter 4 Mitch Seavey Chapter 5 Dick Mackey Chapter 6 Lance Mackey Chapter 7 Jason Mackey Chapter 8 Joe May Chapter 9 Jon Van Zyle Chapter 10 Hobo Jim Chapter 11 Karen Tallent Chapter 12 Jake Berkowitz Chapter 13 Aaron Burmeister Chapter 14 Cim Smyth Chapter 15 Michelle Phillips Chapter 16 Bob Bundtzen Chapter 17 Joanne Potts Chapter 18 Mark Nordman Chapter 19 Stan Hooley Chapter 20 Sebastian Schnuelle Chapter 21 Hugh Neff Chapter 22 Newton Marshall Chapter 23 Paul Gebhardt Chapter 24 DeeDee Jonrowe Chapter 25 Mike Williams Jr. Chapter 26 Pete Kaiser Chapter 27 Jim Lanier Chapter 28 Aliy Zirkle Index About the Author