sled dogs

Explores the true story of Balto the sled dog and his musher, Gunnar Kaasen, who raced through an Alaska blizzard on their sled to bring medicine to children in Nome.

Provides simple information about sled dogs, including their job, training, and value.

The Race to Nome has inspired legend and controversy. The original serum relay in 1925 and the spectrum of cultures that worked together in unselfish bravery helped provide inspiration for the internationally known Iditarod Trail Race.

Ted Brooks, Miami Beach dentist and dog hater, travels to Alaska to claim an inheritance and ends up competing in a sled dog race.

Presents the story of Togo the Siberian husky, one of the hero dogs of the 1925 diphtheria epidemic who helped bring medicine across the Alaskan wilderness to sick children.

Recounts how sled dogs raced over 674 miles to pick up diphtheria serum to save lives in Nome, Alaska in 1925, and they ran over rivers, up mountains, and over ice in sixty degrees below zero weather.

A true story of "Rivers," a blind Alaskan racing sled dog, the challenges he faced, and how he overcame them.

In a remote area of Alaska, twelve-year-old Willow helps her father with their sled dogs when she is not at school, wishing she were more popular, all the while unaware that the animals surrounding her carry the spirits of dead ancestors and friends who care for her.

When children become sick with diptheria in Nome, Alaska the only way serum can be sent is by dog sled. Can Balto deliver the serum in time?.