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This Heroic Dog Raced Across the Frozen Alaskan Wilderness to Deliver Life-Saving Medicine—but His Contributions Were Long OverlookedTogo, 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 ...
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A century ago, a team of determined mushers and their sled dogs embarked on a perilous journey to deliver life-saving ...
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Meet Togo, The Brave Sled Dog Who Led His Team Through The Longest Leg Of The 1925 Nome Serum RunMost people think of Balto as the heroic dog who saved the town of Nome, Alaska, from an outbreak of diphtheria in 1925, but ...
It’s likely the toll was higher; Alaska Natives were not accurately tracked. Balto gains fame as unlikely dog to bring serum to Nome Seppala and Togo missed the limelight that went to his ...
FILE – Gunnar Kaasen poses with his original dog team, including his lead dog Balto, top row, second left, in 1925, which he drove through a blinding blizzard to deliver life-saving serum ...
Al Jazeera on MSN2d
The Alaskan hero dogs who prevented a diphtheria epidemic in 1925One hundred years ago an outbreak of the deadly disease in the Alaskan outpost of Nome caught the world’s attention.
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Gunnar Kaasen and with his dog Balto, the heroic dogsled team leader, sit for a portrait in the early 1920s ...
Despite the rainy weather, he said he was having a great time. Samuel Balto, who was at the time a Portland Public Schools physical education teacher, started the BikeBusPDX program on Earth Day 2022.
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