The history teacher became fascinated by the Gold Rush-era Iditarod Trail and helped stage the first dogsled race.

Mitch Seavey takes off two positions ahead of his son, Dallas Seavey, at the start the Iditarod in Fairbanks, Alaska, in 2017. (Ellamarie Quimby/The Associated Press) Dan Seavey said finding time ...

His son and grandson, however, found more top-level success, garnering a total of nine race victories over the years; Mitch Seavey won three Iditarods in 2004, 2013, and 2017; while Dallas Seavey ...

Dan Seavey ran the first Iditarod, in 1973, when mushers and organizers were still trying to figure out if a thousand-mile ...

FILE - Seward, Alaska, musher Tyrell Seavey, with his grandfather, Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race veteran Dan Seavey, on the second sled, right, and Dan Freitas in the front sled, drives his dog team ...

Though Seavey himself never won the thousand-mile race from Anchorage to Nome, both his son Mitch and grandson Dallas have won it multiple times. Raised in Minnesota, Seavey moved to Seward with ...

with Mitch’s son Dallas winning the first of his record-breaking six titles. Mitch, a three-time Iditarod champ, that year finished seventh. Dan Seavey moved with his family to Alaska in 1963 to ...