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The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race first ran to Nome in 1973, after two short races on part of the Iditarod Trail in 1967 and 1969. The idea of having a race over the Iditarod Trail was conceived by the late Dorothy G. Page. In 1964, Page was chairman of the Wasilla-Knik Centennial and was working on projects to celebrate Alaska's Centennial Year in 1967.

* http://www.iditarod.com/learn/history.html

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actually Iditarod was built in Alaska to send mails on dogs because it was not easy for mailman to go and give mails on the vans because of SNOW...

Thats how it started...

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