Learn more. POLAND – The Board of Selectpersons unanimously gave its support Tuesday to the effort to have the descendants of Togo, a famed sled dog who died nearly a century ago, named the ...
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 ...
Most people think of Balto as the heroic dog who saved the town of Nome, Alaska, from an outbreak of diphtheria in 1925, but ...
Now, 100 years later, Nome is remembering its saviors — the sled dogs and mushers who raced for more than five days through ...
by a sled dog team that will include descendants of musher Leonhard Seppala’s sled dogs. Seppala and his lead dog, Togo, played a pivotal role in the serum run. This time, there will be one team ...