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This Heroic Dog Raced Across the Frozen Alaskan Wilderness to Deliver Life-Saving Medicine—but His Contributions Were Long Overlooked
Leonhard Seppala, read the media acclaim in disbelief. The public was recognizing the wrong dog, he argued. “I resented the ...
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The real hero of the 1925 serum run wasn’t Balto; here’s the true story
One of the foremost teams then assembled comprised Norwegian Leonhard Seppala and his lead dog, Husky Togo, with whom Seppala had an excellent rapport. 12-year-old Togo, 10 other dogs, and their ...
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The True Story Of Balto, The Husky That Helped Save An Entire Alaskan Town From Certain Death
Inside The Nome Serum Run Of 1925 Born around 1919 in Nome, Alaska, Balto was a Siberian Husky who was bred by a Norweigan-born musher named Leonhard ... named Togo leading the pack, Seppala ...
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Mushers and dogs braved a horrific Alaska winter to deliver lifesaving serum 100 years ago
Jonathan Hayes, a Maine resident who has been working to preserve the genetic line of sled dogs driven on the run by famed ...
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Great Race of Mercy: Maine man recreates famed dog-sled run 100 years later
Jonathan Hayes, a musher from northern Maine who has been working to preserve the genetic line of sled dogs driven on the run by famed musher Leonhard ... tracked. Seppala and Togo missed the ...