A bit of family history from the Seavey's Ididaride website:
Dan and Shirley Seavey moved to Seward, Alaska, from central Minnesota in 1963. After surviving the 1964 Good Friday Earthquake, Dan began to raise and train sled dogs.
In 1973, Dan Seavey, along with a number of fellow dog mushers, helped Joe Redington, Sr. found the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, a 1,150-mile sled dog race from Anchorage to Nome. Dan competed in the first and second Iditarod races placing third and fifth respectively. The three weeks spent on the trail to complete those first Iditarod races were huge tests of endurance and fortitude for both the mushers and the dogs.
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