Beverly Masek is a Native American living in Alaska. Beverly was born and raised in Anvik, a very small village in the interior of Alaska with a population of about seventy people. Anvik is one of the sites on the legendary Iditarod. The Iditarod is a dog sled race where one person runs through blizzards, ice and wilderness for 1,029 miles! The racer is all alone with help from no other human being. Just the dog team. The musher, as they are called, has to provide for himself or herself as well as the dogs. It's the most astounding test of human courage and strength imaginable!

When Beverly was only twelve-years-old, she said, "Someday I'm going to do that." She said that even though she didn't own one dog or a sled. All she had was a dream. Each year Beverly watched as one after another Id…