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

Dan Seavey, who helped organize the first Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race and whose son ...

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 ...

both his son Mitch and grandson Dallas have won it multiple times. Raised in Minnesota, Seavey moved to Seward with his family in 1963 and worked as a high school history teacher for two decades.