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

Now, 100 years later, Nome is remembering its saviors — the sled dogs and mushers who raced for more than five days through ...

Seppala and Togo missed the limelight that went to his ... In the left photo, Gunnar Kaasan poses with his original sled dog team, including lead dog Balto, top row, second left, in 1925.

The longest and most arduous leg was anchored by a lesser-known dog named Togo, whose team pulled over 260 miles through blinding snow and wind chills to 85 below zero! At one crucial interval, Togo ...

His team, led by his dog Togo, traveled more than 250 miles of the ... 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 ...