Iditarod?how did it start?

Question

how did the iditarod start?

i need it to know now

Answer 1

in the early 1900s

Answer 2

It was started to commemorate a relay of mushers who worked to get medicine to Nome after an outbreak of diphtheria

Answer 3

A simple web search provided a 1/2 million hits, choose one: http://www.google.com/search?q=Iditarod+...

EDIT: What? 500,000 hits ain't enough for you? And what does "i need it to know now" mean. You're too lazy to simply look it up, use proper grammar and punctuation... loser.

Answer 4

They said Ready, Set and GO followed by a gun being shot

and that's how the race started, you asked

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