Togo, the dog that started the 650-mile run across Alaska during a 1925 storm finished by Balto, finally gets his due in a new movie, “Togo,” streaming Friday on Disney+.

Histories of Alaska: Disney’s new film “Togo” gets important stuff right about desperate run to Nome in 1925. Not the least of which: Balto is limited to seconds on screen.

Famed for delivering life-saving medicine across the Alaskan wilderness in 1925, Togo, a lead sled dog, wound up in Maine. A statue to honor him at Poland Spring is in the works.

Disney+'s 'Togo' is the Untold Story of One of History's Most Heroic Dogs. Togo the sled dog helped to prevent an epidemic ... a smaller, older Siberian husky, to lead his team, and their ...

Togo, the leader of Seppala’s team at that time, had little choice but to take on the assignment to race to Nome that freezing winter along the hardest bit of the trail, 261 miles of icy danger.

The dog that often gets credit for eventually saving the town is Balto, but he just happened to run the last, 55-mile leg in the race. The sled dog who did the lion’s share of the work was Togo. … ...

Still, Togo was arguably the team’s most impressive canine in sheer distance—he ran more than 350 miles total, more than any dog in the pack—as well as heroics. (Courtesy Disney) ...

In Elizabeth Ricker's biographical book, Seppala, Alaskan Dog Driver, Sepp called Fritz "a great dog." Balto, Togo and Fritz were all mounted after they died, and their tales -- especially Fritz's ...

Quick! Name the most heroic sled dog in history. Balto is probably the first name to come to mind, thanks in large part to an animated movie of the same name from the '90s. But it's time another ...

That may change if state Rep. David Boyer of Poland has his way. Boyer said he will ask the Legislature next year to designate the Seppala Siberian sled dog as Maine’s official state dog.

True North was still touring theaters in March when Hayes made the news for a stranger reason: he was accompanying his 17-year-old son on a training run, returning to the kennel, when a rampaging ...