This article is about the sled dog. For the 1995 animated film and the character based on the dog, see Balto (film).
Balto
Balto with Gunnar Kaasen, his musher in the 1925 Serum Run.
Species
Canis lupus familiaris
Breed
Alaskan husky
Sex
Male
Born
1919 (1919) Nome, Territory of Alaska
Died
March 14, 1933(1933-03-14) (aged 13–14) Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Resting place
Cleveland Museum of Natural History
Nation from
United States of America (Territory of Alaska)
Occupation
Sled dog
Known for
1925 serum run to Nome
Owner
Leonhard Seppala
Appearance
Black with white "socks", "bib", and partial white markings on belly and tip of the muzzle, which advanced with age (including white markings around the eyes when he was old). Eyes were dark brown.
Named after
Samuel Balto
Balto (1919 – March 14, 1933) was an Alaskan husky and sled dog belonging to musher and breeder Leonhard Seppala.[1][2] He achieved fame when he led a team of sled dogs driven by Gunnar Kaasen on the final leg of the 1925 serum run to Nome, in which diphtheria antitoxin was transported from Anchorage, Alaska, to Nenana, Alaska, by train and then to Nome by dog sled to combat an outbreak of the disease.[3]
Balto lived in ease at the Cleveland Zoo until his death on March 14, 1933, at the age of 14. Following his death, his body was mounted and displayed in the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, where it remains to this day.[4]
^Thomas, Bob. (2015). Leonhard Seppala : the Siberian dog and the golden age of sleddog racing 1908-1941. Thomas, Pat. Missoula, Montana: Pictorial Histories Publishing Company. ISBN 978-1-57510-170-5. OCLC 931927411.
^Seppala, Leonhard. (2010). Seppala : Alaskan dog driver. Ricker, Elizabeth M. [Whitefish, Mont.]: [Kessinger Publishing]. p. 295. ISBN 978-1-4374-9088-6. OCLC 876188456.
^Salisbury, Gay; Laney Salisbury (2003). The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race against an Epidemic. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. pp. 187. ISBN 0-393-01962-4.
^Thomas, Bob. (2015). Leonhard Seppala : the Siberian dog and the golden age of sleddog racing 1908-1941. Thomas, Pat. Missoula, Montana: Pictorial Histories Publishing Company. p. 73. ISBN 978-1-57510-170-5. OCLC 931927411.
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