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 ...

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 and grandson have each won the famous ...

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 ...

Dan Seavey, who finished third in the first-ever running of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race and sat atop one of Alaska mushing's dynastic families, died last week at the age of 87. News of Seavey's ...