Rick Swenson

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Rick Swenson
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Birth nameRichard Swenson
Birth date1950

Rick Swenson is a real person. The text below is copied from the Wikipedia article on Rick Swenson

'Rick Swenson, sometimes known as the "King of the Iditarod", is an American dog musher who has won the 1,049-mile (1688.2 km) Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race across the U.S. state of Alaska more times than any other competitor.

He won five times, in 1977, 1979, 1981, 1982, and 1991, and is the only person to win in three separate decades. He won his first Iditarod race at the age of 27.

In the Spearfish Lake Tales Universe Josh and Tiffany meet Rick Swenson and Susan Butcher in Alaska at the end of the Iditarod race.RM18