What’s the hurry? It is freezing with temperatures near zero Fahrenheit and a biting wind. But that’s not what’s causing the ...

Gunnar Kaasen and with his dog Balto, the heroic dogsled team leader, sit for a portrait in the early 1920s. (AP Photo, File) In the Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome a contagious disease known as the ...

It's likely the toll was greater, because Alaska Natives were not accurately tracked. Balto gains fame as unlikely dog to bring serum to Nome Seppala and Togo missed the limelight that went to his ...

2, 1925. A banner front-page headline in the San Francisco Chronicle proclaimed: "Dogs victors over blizzard in battle to succor stricken Nome." The official record listed five deaths and 29 illnesses ...