Alaska
By: Emma O. and Layna M.
Alaskan Landscape
Some major rivers in Alaska include the Chena River, the Kasilof River, the Nenana River, the Tanana Rivers, and the Yukon River, but there is also 3 million lakes in Alaska. That's a lot of lakes.
The Central in Alaska has hot, brief summers and long, cold winters. The Aleutian Island archipelago has cold, damp, windy weather. The Artic coast is cold throughout the year, and the ground never thaws.
Alaskan Natives and Culture
Iditarod
Sleds, Sled Dogs, and Mushers
Susan Butcher was born on December 26, 1954, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1975, she moved to Alaska to raise sled dogs. In 1978 she and her dogs competed in their first Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race and finished in nineteenth. Almost every subsequent year she competed in the 1,100 mile race through the Alaskan wilderness. She finished second two times in a row. In 1986 she won the race and set a record time. The following she broke her previous year's record, and in 1988 she became the first person to ever win the Iditarod races in a row.
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Sled- a wooden vehicle pulled by dogs
Sled Dog- a dog trained to draw a usually large sled especially in the Artic
Musher- a traveler over snow with a sled drawn by dogs in a race