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, 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 ...

I was looking at DeLorme maps — what route would I take? Then Cyndi called me one night and said, “We’re going to raise money for a Togo statue here.” And I said, “I’m going to do a dog-sled ...

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