If you’re fascinated by this race, then you need to read Iditarod The First Ten Years. Dedicated to the volunteers who dreamed this race into being and to the volunteers who keep it going, this anthology of history, stories, photographs, dogs, pilots, artwork, music, veterinarians, HAM operators, mushers, trail breakers and people from Anchorage to Nome takes the reader out to Cripple, on the Yukon, in the Cessnas and Super Cubs, at the checkpoints cooking Krusteaz pancakes, making one say, ‘ “Man, I wish I could have been there!” ‘