Twenty mushers and 150 dogs took turns carrying a 20-pound package of life-saving serum. Here’s how they completed this impossible relay known as the Great Race of Mercy, racing along what became the ...

Gunnar Kaasen and his dog Balto, the heroic dog-sled team leader, sit for a portrait in the early 1920s. They were part of a group of mushers and sled dogs that braved frigid conditions to bring ...

A statue in New York's Central Park, shown in December 1947, was erected to honor Balto and other dogs that pulled mushers and their diphtheria serum-bearing sleds to Nome, Alaska, through a ...

Native American News Mushers and dogs braved a horrific Alaska winter to deliver lifesaving serum 100 years ago Published: Feb. 05, 2025, 12:08 p.m.

The Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome was hundreds of miles from anywhere and under siege from a contagious disease known as the "strangling angel." Now, 100 years later, Nome is remembering its saviors, ...