Dan Seavey, who helped organize the first Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race and whose son and grandson have each won the famous Alaska race multiple times, has died. He was 87.
The Minnesota native, who had been adamant in wanting to remain at the south-central Alaska home in Seward he had moved his family to decades earlier, was out helping tend to his dogs shortly before he died last Thursday, his son Mitch Seavey said.
