Balto and a portion of the team were confined to the back room Los Angeles dime museum before they were purchased by a ...
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 ...
One hundred years ago an outbreak of the deadly disease in the Alaskan outpost of Nome caught the world’s attention.
His team, led by his dog Togo, traveled more than 250 miles (320 ... Iditarod pays homage to the serum run Today, the most famous mushing event in the world is the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race ...
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 ...
Seppala and Togo missed the limelight that went to his ... which is not based on the serum run but on the Iditarod Trail, a supply route from Seward to Nome. Iditarod organizers are nevertheless ...
Now, 100 years later, Nome is remembering its saviors — the sled dogs and mushers who raced for more than five days through ...