With the only cure hundreds of miles away, it seemed that the town was in danger of being decimated — until a dog named Balto ...

Alaska was one of America’s last remaining frontiers. The isolated region was one full of hardship but offered a quiet ...

His name was Balto, an Alaskan husky and sled dog born in Nome, and he led a team of sled dogs, driven by Gunnar Kaasen and ...

In 1925, a handsome male sledge dog named Balto led a 13-dog team that braved blizzard conditions during the gruelling final 53-mile (85-km) leg of a 674-mile (1,088-km) dogsled relay, bringing ...

The breed is known for delivering lifesaving medicine to the remote town of Nome, Alaska, during an outbreak of diphtheria in 1925.

Balto is a 1995 American live-action/animated ... The film is loosely based on a true story about the dog of the same name who helped save children from the diphtheria epidemic in the 1925 serum ...