Mary Sheilds
By: Holland
Mary Sheilds is married and lives in Fairbanks, Alaska. She was the first women to finish the Iditarod ®. Mary completed the race in twenty-third place. Her time was 28 days, 18 hours, 56 minutes. She never entered the Iditarod Race again, but has competed in other races. Mary is originally from a suburb of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Sources
http://library.thinkquest.org/11313/Iditarod/mary.html
Iditarod Classics (Lew Freedman)