Susan Butcher was an American dog musher.She was known 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. Butcher began training to compete in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, a gruelling 1,112 to 1,131-mile race through artic blizzard conditions across the Alaska wilderness, which tests the endurance of both mushers and dogs over the course of one to two weeks.
