Dan Seavey, who helped organize the first Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race and whose son and grandson have each won the famous ...

FILE - Dan Seavey prepares to leave the Skwentna, Alaska, checkpoint of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Monday, March 5, 2012. (Marc Lester/Anchorage Daily News via AP,File) FILE - Dan Seavey ...

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 ...

"The First Great Race," the family's connection to dog mushing -- and Dan Seavey's career as a history teacher in Seward -- started after he drove his little family from Minnesota to Alaska.