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

He also wrote a book, The First Great Race, which his son said drew on notes Seavey recorded during the first edition of the Iditarod. Dan Seavey stands at the official start of the 2012 Iditarod ...

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Dan Seavey prepares to leave the Skwentna, Alaska, checkpoint of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Monday, March 5, 2012. (Marc Lester/Anchorage Daily News via AP,File) Veteran musher Dan Seavey, ...

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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 ...

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

Among the most popular sports in Alaska, especially amid the ever-lasting winter months, is dog mushing (also known as sled ...