Return to: The Iditarod Trail - In 1908, hopeful miners throughout Alaska and the Yukon flooded the Iditarod region following the discovery of gold on Otter Creek. Within a year the main camp in the gold fields developed at Flat.
AMRC-b64-1-751 Dog teams moved the mail and freight over trails all over Interior Alaska. Charles F. Cann photo. Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Library and Archives
