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2009 but didn't compete.
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Contact: www.dannyglennjourney.com
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As a descendant of William H. Seward, Deb
‘Danny' Glenn, 53, has always had a
fascination for the Alaskan wilderness. Born and
raised in Michigan, it wasn't until she and her
mother and daughter came to Nome to watch the
finish of Iditarod that she realized where her real
passion lay, owning sled dogs and being out in the
wilderness with them. During her stay in Nome she
became friends with Dick Mackey who later
introduced her to John Barron. She trained dogs on
the mountain in Montana with the Barrons for two
years, selling her nursing home and commuting back
and forth to Wisconsin to work part-time and spend
time with her family. Finally she was able to
rescue a few sled dogs she could call her own. She
also had a litter of pups she has raised and
trained to complete her own Iditarod team. This
summer the town they lived in changed their dog
ordinance and gave Glenn ninety days to get rid of
her dogs. Instead the family gave up the home they
had built with their own hands and where they had
raised their family, and moved into an abandoned
farmhouse. Who would have known, but around the
corner from their ‘new' place, lives the
founder of Berntsen International, who surveyed the
Iditarod trail. After reading an article about
Glenn in the paper, and seeing the dogs on his way
to the office he put two and two together. They
became friends and as a gift he gave her the only
survey marker not in the ground on the trail. She
is now training out of Al Hardman's cabin and
training up his team too. Deb did post-graduate
work at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is
married to Bill and is the mother of Emily, Drew
and Garrett. She is looking forward to getting a
kiss from their new granddaughter in Nome.
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