The Dog That Really Saved Nome (It Wasn't Balto)

The true story of Togo and the 1925 Nome serum run reveals that the dog immortalized in Central Park was not the one who ran the hardest miles. While Balto crossed the finish line into Nome, Leonhard Seppala and his lead dog Togo traversed over two hundred miles of brutal Alaskan sea ice and sub-zero blizzard winds to deliver the life-saving diphtheria antitoxin. Historical records, medical logs, and eyewitness reports paint a very different picture from the popular legend. Discover how an undersized pup dismissed as a pet saved an entire town, why credit went to the wrong sled dog, and where Togo's journey eventually concluded. CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 0:58 1. A Town With an Expired Cure 2:53 2. The Dog Nobody Wanted 4:18 3. The Ice Factory 6:35 4. Fifty-Three Miles 8:20 5. The Statue and the Sideshow 9:53 6. Where Togo Ended Up SOURCES 1. U.S. National Park Service, Togo. https://www.nps.gov/people/togo.htm 2. Smithsonian Magazine, Heroic Dog Togo Raced Across the Frozen Alaskan Wilderness to Deliver Life-Saving Medicine. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/histor... 3. National Endowment for the Humanities, Dog vs. Airplane (Humanities, Nov/Dec 2013). https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2013/n... 4. Journal of the American Medical Association (1925), The Diphtheria Epidemic at Nome. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama... 5. NYC Parks, Central Park Monuments: Balto. https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/cen... 6. Case Western Reserve University, Encyclopedia of Cleveland History, Balto. https://case.edu/ech/articles/b/balto 7. Maine Memory Network, Togo the Siberian Husky and His Ties to Maine. https://www.mainememory.net/exhibits/... 8. Poland Spring Preservation Society, Togo the Sled Dog. https://polandspringps.org/togo-the-s... 9. Britannica, Balto. https://www.britannica.com/animal/Bal... Honesty note (put in description): about 20 mushers ran the relay and Balto's team brought the serum into Nome