A century ago, a team of determined mushers and their sled dogs embarked on a perilous journey to deliver life-saving ...
Togo, not Balto, was the driving force behind the 1925 Serum Run to Nome, which found teams of mushers and sled dogs delivering antitoxin to children suffering from diphtheria ...
Balto and a portion of the team were confined to the back room Los Angeles dime museum before they were purchased by a ...
Gunnar Kaasen and his dog Balto ... team. Balto was immortalized in movies and with statues in New York's Central Park and one in Anchorage intended as a tribute to all sled dogs.
Most people think of Balto as the heroic dog who saved the town of Nome, Alaska, from an outbreak of diphtheria in 1925, but ...
Now, 100 years later, Nome is remembering its saviors — the sled dogs and mushers ... slow to be on a competitive team. Balto was immortalized in movies and with statues in New York's Central ...