Much has been made of the legacy of late four-time Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race champion Susan Butcher since this race left her old hometown of Fairbanks. It's now been 25 years since Butcher ...

FOUR-TIME IDITAROD CHAMPION Susan Butcher, who died Saturday at 51 of leukemia, was the Lance Armstrong of dogsledding. For most of a decade she dominated the 1,150-mile race from Anchorage to Nome, ...

The best dog team anyone ever hitched to a sled was the one Susan Butcher stood behind in the 1985 Iditarod, the 1,100-mile race across Alaska from Anchorage to The best dog team anyone ever hitched ...

It's tough for mushers to pick a favorite dog, but when asked about one dog to profile for Iditapod's Dog of the Day, Anja Radano picked Butcher, seen here at her kennel in Talkeetna, Alaska, at the ...

FAIRBANKS, Alaska – Grizzled dog mushers, politicians, a computer mogul and a Hollywood filmmaker were among the crowd of hundreds that gathered in the heart of Alaska on Saturday to remember the ...

FAIRBANKS—As Dave Monson stood outside his house on the bank of the Chena River on Monday morning, he gave a cheer and a burst of applause as the No. 11 team bolted toward Nenana. Kristy Berington's ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) – Four-time Iditarod champion Susan Butcher died ...

Four-time Iditarod champion Susan Butcher, who in 1986 won the race and brought increased national attention to its grueling competition, died Saturday in a Seattle hospital. She was 51, and had ...

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 daughter ...

May 10, 2006 — -- Susan Butcher has won the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race -- an 1,100-mile trek across Alaska's frozen tundra -- four times, but the mother of two faces her toughest race yet as ...

No other Iditarod musher has ever had five years like Susan Butcher's stretch between 1986 and 1990. In those years Butcher finished first, first, first, second -- by less than one hour -- and first ...