Sled Dogs: An Alaskan Epic Home Sledding Into the Wilderness | Making of a Sled Dog | Balto | Dogsledding 101 | Resources BALTO In 1925, a life-or-death race to rescue the children of Nome, AK, from disease made an international hero of one sled dog -- and eventually led to the creation of Alaska's Iditarod sled dog race, the subject of NATURE's SLED DOGS: AN ALASKAN EPIC. In 1925, sled dogs ...

If Sculptures Could Talk . . . Balto BALTO 1925 By Frederick George Richard Roth, 1872 - 1944 Located: Central Park New York, New York This life-sized sculpture is New York's only statue commemorating a dog. Balto was a husky who, in the winter of 1925, led a dogsled team through a blizzard to get desperately needed medicine to Nome, Alaska where there was a fatal diptheria epidemic. Children in ...

Incredible Animal Adventures By Jean Craighead George CHAPTER ONE Balto Balto, a half-wolf, half-Malamute sled dog, trotted head down in the darkness of a stinging blizzard. Behind him his ten teammates kept pace as he guided them into Nome, Alaska, and down a deserted street to the hospital. Halt! Musher Gunnar Kasson croaked through ice-burned lips. Balto dropped into the deep snow at the door ...