In January 1925, it wasn’t the cold that sent shivers down the spine of Curtis Welch, the only doctor in Nome, Alaska (population 1,400). It was the realization children were dying from an outbreak of ...
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 ...
In the Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome a contagious disease known as the “strangling angel” put the town under siege 100 years ...
Balto and a portion of the team were confined to the back room Los Angeles dime museum before they were purchased by a ...
Nome, Alaska, remembers its saviors — the sled dogs and mushers who raced for more than five days through hypothermia, ...
On Feb. 2, 1925, the legendary Alaska Serum Run ended as the last of a series of dog mushers brought life-saving medication ...
Humans and dogs have a long history together. In December, researchers from the UA Museum of the North’s (UAMN) department of ...
Seppala and Togo missed the limelight that went to his assistant ... 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 ...
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