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Carl Huntington (December 4, 1947 – October 13, 2000) was an Athabaskan-American dog musher who is best known for winning the 1974 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race as a rookie, with a time of 20 days, 15 hours, 1 minute, 7 seconds.

In addition to winning the Iditarod, he also won the Open World Championship Race, or the Fur Rendezvous Race in 1973 and 1977, a unique feat because this race was a speed competition, while the Iditarod is a distance competition. In reference to this, musher Libby Riddles said "There's nobody that has quite the record he has."

Huntington died of an apparent suicide on October 13, 2000. He had recently been estranged from his family, and was charged with sexual abuse of a minor.

References

1. "Carl Huntington". Fold3. Ancestry.com. Retrieved August 6, 2020.
2. Runyan, Joe (February 22, 2013). "A Tribute to lead dog Nugget—an Iditarod Legend". Iditarod. Retrieved February 28, 2020.
3. "Race Archives". Iditarod. January 13, 2013. Retrieved February 26, 2020.
4. Freedman, Lew (October 18, 2000). "Musher holds a special renown (II)". Anchorage Daily News. p. 24. Retrieved December 29, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
5. ^ "Mushing legend dies from apparent suicide". The Seattle Times. October 16, 2000. Retrieved February 26, 2020.

• 1947 births
• 2000 suicides
• 2000 deaths
• American dog mushers
• Dog mushers from Alaska
• Iditarod champions
• Koyukon people
• People from Yukon–Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska
• Suicides in Alaska
• People charged with sex crimes