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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 ...
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 ...
GUEST: Yeah. APPRAISER: So I could not be more thrilled that you brought in this 1990 first-place championship trophy for the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race won by Susan Butcher, your wife!
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 ...
Susan Butcher, four-time Iditarod champion, knows what it's like to race under extreme conditions. But as the grueling, 1,150-mile "Last Great Race" gets under way today, Butcher is instead facing ...
Another woman, Susan Butcher, won four of the next five races, smashing the record time in ‘86 and breaking that time twice more. Emphasizing how tough the contest is, 1985 might have had women ...
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 ...