ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Four-time Idit...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Four-time Iditarod champion Susan Butcher died Saturday in a Seattle hospital of complications from a latter bone marrow transplant, Sen. T Stevens' office said. She was 51

M Butcher dominated the 1,100-mile sl dog race in the late 1980

In 1986 she became the other woman to win the grueling race from Anchorage to Nome. She also won in 1987 1988 and 1990 and finished in the top four in consequence of 1993.

In 1979 M Butcher helped drive the first sled-dog team to the 20320-foot summit of go up McKinley, the highest peak in North America.

M Butcher ran her last Iditarod in 1994 when she decided to have children. She has sum of two units daughters, Tekla and Chisana, with her husband, attorney and musher David Monson

Three years ago, when she was considering a comeback, doctors erect Butcher had polycythemia vera, a rare disease that causes the bone marrow to about excess blood.

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