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The True Story of Balto

Balto (1922) was a siberian husky owned by Leonard Seppala won all the biggest sled dog racing with his protégé Togo.

The beginning of the epidemic

January 19, 1925, broke out in Alaska, in a town called Name a strong outbreak of diphtheria antitoxin and stocks were missing because of an epidemic broke out in 1918. The first case of diphtheria was reported on an Inuit child, but the doctor diagnosed tonsillitis visiting it, because no other family members reported symptoms of diphtheria. The child died the next morning (the mother did not authorize an autopsy and it worsened the situation) and then began to experience many other similar cases. The first official case of disease occurred, however, January 20, 1925. It was a council convened emergency Welch (the doctor who visited the Inuit child) Name and declared in a state of quarantine. He was ordained a million vials of antitoxin, but the stock was closer than three hundred thousand units in (9 kg in all) was in Anchorage, the capital, which is to name more than one thousand seven hundred kilometers. Was not directly connected to Anchorage to Nome, the railroad carried only up to about a thousand kilometers to Nenana and bad weather prevented the planes take off and icebergs prevented ships from docking.

Relay for serum

To mitigate this problem then you chose to use a method increasingly used by the mail, that is, the sled dogs. The antitoxin
who was in Nenana was near six hundred miles from Nome, the company was then organized a relay race of twenty teams of dogs.
The first one was from Edgar Bill Shannon who traveled 52 miles, then fell to Edgar Kalland that traveled 31 miles, then 28 miles to Green, Johnny Folger 26, Sam Joseph 34, 24 Nikotai Titus, Dave 30 Corning, Hewnry Pitka 30, McCarty 28, Edgar 24 Nollnerr, George Noller (brother) 30, 36 Tommy Patsy, the Indian Koyokuk 40, Victor 34 Anagick, Myles Gonagnan 40. Now was the turn of Leonard Seppala with his boss suit Toto, the fastest dog in the area, he cut 91 miles to the plain of Norton where the ice was very thin, saving several miles. After he fell to Charlie Olson with 25 miles and finally Gunnar Kasson carrying the antitoxin for the last 53 miles with a dog Leonadr of Seppala, Balto, considered good by the owner only to bring mail for short stretches. They came to name
February 2, 1925 after covering 674 miles in 127 hours at a temperature of about -40 °.

Balto after the race

Balto to the fact that it came with the antitoxin to Nome was honored with a short film shot in the same year and a statue in Central Park in New York. Kasson
Balto and also did a tour of the United States where they were praised by all. Leonard Seppala, however, have made him aware of the company more hard together to Togo, was able to get credit and walked with his dog to do the same within Kasson, while he returned to Alaska after he sold his eight dogs. After that Kasson was never heard anything, Balto and the other dogs instead ended up in the clutches of a person who could be anything but a dog lover.
were kept the chain in poor hygienic conditions, abused and forced to perform in a club.
Fortunately they were noticed by George Kimble, who decided to buy them, but to do so would have had to raise $ 2,000 in two weeks. Kimble then organized a collection for charity through the radio, and a school. So, how Balto saved him children, the children were now to save him. After being released, Balto and the other dogs were taken to Brookside Zoo where they were treated in Cleveland. Balto went blind, deaf and arthritic at the age of 11 years, until March 1933. Togo died at the age of 17 years instead.

Balto's body was embalmed and then today you can see at the Natural History Museum in Cleveland, but the embalmed body of Togo is located in the Museum of Natural History in Wasilla, Alaska.