Portland Press Herald

Push on to make the heirs of famous sled dog Togo, a Maine retiree, the official state dog

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Sun Journal

Poland throws support at bid to make Togo’s descendants the state dog

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Sun Journal

Poland Spring celebrates the Seppala Siberian Sleddog

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WISH-TV

A century ago, sled dogs braved dangerous weather to rescue Nome, Alaska, from a deadly disease

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome faced a bleak winter. It was hundreds of miles from anywhere, cut off by the frozen sea and unrelenting blizzards, and under siege from a ...
Publishers Weekly

Togo to the Rescue: How a Heroic Husky Saved the Lives of Children in Alaska

The story of the sled dogs that braved a blizzard, transporting serum to quell a 1925 diphtheria outbreak in Nome, Alaska, has been told before, via the story of Balto the dog. In this picture book, ...
The Gazette

The 1925 dog sled run to deliver serum across Alaska covered 674 miles with 20 mushers and 150 dogs

Nome, Alaska, January 1925. Home to roughly 1,400 hearty people who live off what they can pull from the rugged landscape. The population in the U.S. territory of Alaska is a mix of Athabascan and ...