Second race!
Very hard to find any buttons from the early races in the 80s!
Alaska Yukon Quest 1000 mi Dog Sled Race collectors button
very nice
Measures approx 2 1/4 inches tall!
The talk about creating a race like this started as far back as 1976, but in 1983 4 mushers sat around a local Fairbanks bar discussing actually making this race happen. And in 1984 it was a go! The race
would go along the same routes that the prospectors followed along the Yukon River to reach the Klondike during the 1898 Gold Rush and from there to the Alaskan interior for the following gold rushes in the early years of the 1900s.
The first Yukon Quest 1,000 Mile International Sled Dog Race tested both race logistics and the talents of all involved. Twenty-six teams left Fairbanks in 1984. During the next 16 days, 20 teams arrived in Whitehorse. Six teams were forced to drop out along the way
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