Racing Toward Recovery: The Extraordinary Story of Alaska Musher Mike Williams Sr.

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For the first time, Alaska musher and tribal leader Mike Williams shares his remarkable life story with veteran sports author Lew Freedman. Williams is a man of many parts, a sports figure, a central authority figure, a leader of his people, a husband, a father, and a Native man with one foot firmly planted in the twenty-first century and another firmly planted in the roots of a culture that dates back 10,000 years in Alaska. Williams competed in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race fifteen times, and used to be once the only Yup’ik Eskimo musher, a symbol to all Natives around the state. Even though he used to be never a top contender for the Iditarod title, he used to be a competitor whom everyone cheered because he resolved that to make clear one of Alaska’s greatest threats to the health and future of its Native people, he would carry in his dog sled pages―pounds worth―of signatures of people that had pledged sobriety. A Yup’ik Eskimo, Williams saw firsthand how alcohol could devastate people as surely as if they had gotten smaller a deadly flu: each and every of his brothers had succumbed to alcohol-related accidents, incidents, or illnesses. Williams describes how he recovered from his dependence on alcohol through religion, loved ones, and racing dogs. For a few years Williams carried those sobriety pledges in his sled, focusing attention on a troubling, seemingly intractable problem. Williams gained national attention, being profiled by CNN, Sports Illustrated, and Good Morning The us. Fellow Iditarod competitors have voted him “the most inspirational musher.”

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