The temperature hovered around freezing in New York’s Central Park on December 15, 1925. Clad in a thick fur coat, Alaskan ...

The Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome was hundreds of miles from anywhere, cut off by the frozen sea and under siege from a ...

Balto and a portion of the team were confined to the back room Los Angeles dime museum before they were purchased by a ...

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 ...

Most people think of Balto as the heroic dog who saved the town of Nome, Alaska, from an outbreak of diphtheria in 1925, but ...

Nome, Alaska, remembers its saviors — the sled dogs and mushers who raced for more than five days through hypothermia, frostbite, gale-force winds and blinding whiteouts to deliver life-saving serum.

The secluded star of Cleveland's palace of taxidermy was once the most famous dog in the country, even before he inspired a kids' movie. In 1925, Balto, a Siberian husky, led a team of sled dogs ...