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-b81-19-2 A pair of "express" dog teams rests on the snow-covered main street of Seward after a trip in from the Iditarod area in this 1917 image. Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Library and Archives
