A century ago, a team of determined mushers and their sled dogs embarked on a perilous journey to deliver life-saving ...
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 ...
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 David Kindy ...
From January 27, 1925 until February 2, 20 mushers and 150 dogs heroically transported desperately needed diphtheria antitoxin to the remote town of Nome, Alaska, saving countless lives in the process ...
At least it was snowing and not raining Monday when the sled dog team re-enacting the Centennial Serum Run to Nome left Nenana, exactly 100 years after that lifesaving journey took place in 1925.
Nenana is going all-out for the re-enactment of the Serum Run of 100 years ago ... musher and dog team that plans to bring that box to Nome as they re-enact the lifesaving journey of 100 years ...
Nome was built on gold and dogs ... and dedicated runners—above all during the epic days of the Serum Run in the winter of 1925. By late January, with adults and children dying of diphtheria ...