Butcher, Susan

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Susan Howlet Butcher (December 26, 1954 – August 5, 2006) was an American dog musher, noteworthy as the second woman to win the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in 1986, the second four-time winner in 1990, and the first to win four out of five sequential years. She is commemorated in Alaska by the Susan Butcher Day.

While a real person, she appears in the books as Tiffany Langenderfer-McMahon's inspiration for dog-racing.^AF29 Tiffany's sister Susan was named for Susan Butcher, mostly due to Tiffany's influence.^BAR49

Tiffany eventually met Susan Butcher in Alaska.^RM18

Wikipedia article: Susan Butcher