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

Nome, Alaska, remembers its saviors — the sled dogs and mushers who raced for more than five days through hypothermia, ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Feb. 2, 1925, the legendary Alaska Serum ...

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 ...

One hundred years ago an outbreak of the deadly disease in the Alaskan outpost of Nome caught the world’s attention.