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Also known as: Iditarod Trail Seppala Memorial Race
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Susan H. Butcher
Sled dog trainer, musher, and four-time winner of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
Susan H. Butcher
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Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, annual dogsled race run in March between Anchorage and Nome, Alaska, U.S. The race can attract more than 100 participants and their teams of dogs, and both male and female mushers (drivers) compete together. A short race of about 25 miles (40 km) was organized in 1967 as part of the centennial celebration of the Alaska Purchase and evolved in 1973 into the current race. The architects of the race were Dorothy G. Page, chairman of one of Alaska’s centennial committees, and Joe Redington, Sr., a musher and kennel owner; they are known as the ...(100 of 716 words)

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