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On the centennial of the Nome Serum Run, the story of the sordid aftermath for its two most famous dogs, Balto and Togo
Balto and a portion of the team were confined to the back room Los Angeles dime museum before they were purchased by a ...
Deseret News archives: 100 years ago, sled dogs arrived in Nome, Alaska, with lifesaving medicine
On Feb. 2, 1925, the legendary Alaska Serum Run ended as the last of a series of dog mushers brought life-saving medication ...
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Mushers, dogs braved harsh Alaska winter to deliver life-saving serum 100 years ago
Nome, Alaska, remembers its saviors — the sled dogs and mushers who raced for more than five days through hypothermia, ...
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Mushers and dogs braved a horrific Alaska winter to deliver lifesaving serum 100 years ago – Associated Press
Gunnar Kaasen poses with his original dog team, including his lead dog Balto, top row, second left, in 1925, which he drove through a blinding blizzard to ...
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February 2, ‘American Sniper’ Chris Kyle killed
On Feb. 2, 2013, former Navy SEAL and “American Sniper” author Chris Kyle was fatally shot along with a friend, Chad Littlefield, at a gun range west of Glen Rose, Texas; Eddie Ray Routh was later ...
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Dogs and humans: A history together in Interior Alaska
Humans and dogs have a long history together. In December, researchers from the UA Museum of the North’s (UAMN) department of ...
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The Great Race Of Mercy — This Happened: February 2
On this day in 1925, amid an encroaching epidemic of diphtheria, a team of 20 mushers and about 150 sled dogs made the ...