In 2001, a New York author called me in search of information about Balto, the famous sled dog. It wasn’t exactly Balto that Laney Salisbury was asking about, but the dog’s musher.

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 ...

But their musher, Gunnar Kaasen, eventually tired of being shackled to Balto, and the dogs were sold to a dime-a-peek circus/freak show. The world's most heroic dog ended up chained to a sled in a ...

Now, 100 years later, Nome is remembering its saviors, the sled dogs and mushers who raced hundreds of miles to deliver its cure. ... Balto was another of Seppala’s dogs, ...

Cleveland, Ohio – One-hundred years ago, a star was born. His name was Balto. He was a sled-dog, probably a mix of Siberian Husky, Malamute, maybe a little wolf. He was a little guy, just 40 ...

FILE – The statue erected to honor “Balto” and other heroic sled dogs who carried serum to Nome, Alaska, through an Arctic blizzard is covered in snow in New York’s Central Park, Dec. 11 ...

Nome is remembering the sled dogs and mushers who raced hundreds of miles to deliver its cure. Events celebrating the serum run centennial are being celebrated throughout Alaska and elsewhere.