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The Iditarod Trail: A History of Sled Dog Travel
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The roadhouses and dog barns built every 20-30 miles along the Iditarod Trail allowed for easier travel for sled dog teams and helped with the transport of over 65 tons of gold. The trail is now famous for the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, but it lost demand with the arrival of planes and World War I.
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The Iditarod trail was a system of roadhouses and dog barns constructed every 20-30 miles to allow for travel without carrying weeks of provision, and was later famous for the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
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Iditarod Trail
Summary
The Iditarod trail was a system of roadhouses and dog barns constructed every 20-30 miles to allow for travel without carrying weeks of provision, and was later famous for the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Over 65 tons of gold, equivalent to $2.5 billion today, were taken from the area using dog sleds, but demand for sled dogs decreased with the advent of airplanes during World War I.