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This Heroic Dog Raced Across the Frozen Alaskan Wilderness to Deliver Life-Saving Medicine—but His Contributions Were Long Overlooked
A statue of Balto in Central Park Pete LaMotte via Flickr under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Seppala added, “It was almost more than I could bear when the ‘newspaper’ dog Balto received a statue for his ...
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The True Story Of Balto, The Husky That Helped Save An Entire Alaskan Town From Certain Death
Across America, Balto became a household name. In New York City, he was even honored with a statue in Central Park on December 17, 1925, just 10 months after the serum run. Sculpted by Frederick ...
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On the centennial of the Nome Serum Run, the story of the sordid aftermath for its 2 most famous dogs, Balto and Togo
Balto and a portion of the team were confined to the back room Los Angeles dime museum before they were purchased by a ...
The Atlantic21d
The Animal Story That RFK Jr. Should Know
Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (Noa) using AI narration. Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Just outside New York City’s Central Park Zoo, not far from where Robert F. Kennedy Jr ...
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Mushers and dogs braved a horrific Alaska winter to deliver lifesaving serum 100 years ago
(AP Photo, File) The statue erected to honor “Balto” and other heroic sled dogs who carried serum to Nome, Alaska, through an ...
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This Heroic Dog Raced Across the Frozen Alaskan Wilderness to Deliver Life-Saving Medicine—but His Contributions Were Long Overlooked
The temperature hovered around freezing in New York’s Central Park on December 15, 1925. Clad in a thick fur coat, Alaskan sled-dog musher Gunnar Kaasen stood next to the hero of the moment: Balto, a ...