FATHER OF THE IDITAROD
In a place where respect is not easily earned, the name of this homesteader, pilot, and visionary dog-musher generates awe. His is the classic image of an Alaska pioneer--rugged, independent, determined, hard-working. Meet Joe Redington, Father of the Iditarod, a man who found his destiny in Alaska. In an inspirational biography, Chicago Tribune sportswriter Lew Freedman chronicles Redington's birth on the Chisholm Trail and his boyhood in the Depression--homeless, motherless, roaming the country looking for work as a field hand. Alaska was his rebirth in 1948. Redington found the home he never had. On his own piece of dirt, a man could raise…
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- ISBN: 978-0-945397-75-5
- EAN: 9780945397755
- Produktnummer: 22859947
- Verlag: Epicenter Press Inc.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
- Seitenangabe: 324 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.7 cm 471 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 471
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