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Carole Marsh Mystery Series

Real Kids! Real Places!

The Mystery on the Iditarod Trail

Four real (cold) kids head north to Alaska (where else?) just in time for the famous Iditarod Trial dogsled race! They discover themselves in hot pursuit of a runaway team with a renegade musher? in a snowbank of clues about a mystery that needs solving VERY FAST! All you got to do is dig through some very old Gold Rush history, but hurry lives are depending on you! On, you huskies! 

LOOK what's in this mystery - people, places, history, and more! 
Alaskan geography • Information on California and Klondike gold rushes • Gold Dust Soup • Story of Balto and the beginning of the Iditarod • Dressing for the Alaskan weather • Siberian huskies • How to feed sled dogs • Moose • Dogs and antifreeze • Information on the Iditarod race- racing vocabulary, sled dog alignment, how to drive a sled, supplies needed, and training • Mail on the Iditarod • Prizes for Iditarod winner and Iditarod finishers • Changing location of Iditarod race • Widow's Lantern and historical lantern use • Gold Rush Hotel • Burled Arch, Nome, AK • Eagle River, AK • Skwentna, AK • Ruby, AK • Nulato, AK. 

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