Susan Butcher, the musher who won the grueling Iditarod sled dog race four times and helped fuel worldwide interest in Alaska’s annual competition, has died. She was 51. Butcher died Saturday of ...

Four-time Iditarod champion Susan Butcher, who in 1986 became the dog sled race's second female winner and brought increased national attention to its grueling competition, has died. She was 51.

Susan Butcher was his wife and their mother. Now, the family she left behind is looking for her in the places she loved most. Exuberant and outgoing, 16-year-old Tekla has her mother's face ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Four-time Iditarod champion Susan Butcher died Saturday in a Seattle hospital of a reoccurrence of leukemia after a recent stem-cell transplant, her doctor said. She was 51.

Trail Breaker Kennel is debuting a new sled dog and multisport race in March in honor of Susan Butcher. The kennel’s general manager and lead tour guide, Tekla Butcher-Monson, is the eldest ...

May 10, 2006 — -- Susan Butcher has won the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race -- an 1,100-mile trek across Alaska's frozen tundra -- four times, but the mother of two faces her toughest race yet ...

Tekla Butcher-Monson’s late mother, Susan Butcher, is a renowned figure for her achievements as a musher. But Butcher-Monson is leading a legacy all her own while making sure her mother’s is ...

In 1985, the late Susan Butcher was leading the race when she used her ax and a parka to fend off a moose, but it killed two of her dogs and injured 13 others. Another musher came along and killed ...