A century ago, a team of determined mushers and their sled dogs embarked on a perilous journey to deliver life-saving ...

Gunnar Kaasen and his dog Balto, the heroic dog-sled team leader, sit for a portrait in the early 1920s. They were part of a group of mushers and sled dogs that braved frigid conditions to bring ...

Balto and a portion of the team were confined to the back room Los Angeles dime museum before they were purchased by a ...

Deštné v Orlických horách, Czechia - January 24, 2025 More than 100 mushers and 700 dogs participated in the Sedivackuv Long race, the longest in the Czech Republic and one of the most ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Deštné v Orlických horách, Czechia - January 24, 2025 More than 100 mushers and 700 dogs participated in the Sedivackuv ...

Most people think of Balto as the heroic dog who saved the town of Nome, Alaska, from an outbreak of diphtheria in 1925, but Togo the Siberian husky was the head of the sled dog team that ran 260 ...

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 David Kindy ...

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. He received a bone-shaped key to the city of Los Angeles ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome faced a bleak winter. It was hundreds of miles from anywhere, cut off by the frozen sea and unrelenting blizzards, and under siege from a ...