Iditarod, Alaska City Drug Store Z.J. Loussac C100003 Western Alaska on Iditerod River & 9 miles NNW of Flat: placer gold mining; scene of [1908] gold rush. The Iditerod meaning "a distant place"
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Alaska A district from Oct. 18, 1867, until it became an organized territory Aug. 24, 1912. Became A State Jan. 3, 1959
In 1907, Loussac fled Tsarist
Russia for Alaska, living in Nome,
Unalakleet, Iditarod and Juneau
before settling down in Anchorage
in 1916 to open a drugstore at
Fourth Avenue and E Street. He
sold out of the drugstore business
in 1942,