{"product_id":"9780945397755","title":"Father of the Iditarod","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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 a family, hunt, fish, run dogs, and stand up for what he believed. Almost single-handedly, Redington rescued Alaska dog mushing from extinction. With ambition, an abiding love for sled dogs, and refusal to accept \"it can't be done,\" Redington created a legacy in the thousand-mile race across Alaska that has thrilled the world for more than three decades, the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Epicenter Press (WA)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42431274680381,"sku":"9780945397755","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780945397755_p0.jpg?v=1771586421","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.mom\/products\/9780945397755","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}