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While I was searching the Archives of the Plattsburgh Sentinel which is currently called the Press Republican Newspaper I came across some articles about the race to Nome.
Dog Hero of ,
Nome Is Dead
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Feb.
s. (A.P.)—Balto, leader of
Gunnar Kasson's team of Siberian
wolves and canine hero
in a recent relay race from
Nanana to Nome with 300,000
units of diphtheria' anti-toxin,
is dead, according to a report
received from Nome.
The report added that Balto
and the majority of Kasson's
prize team had died from frozen
lungs as the result of
struggling sixty miles from
Bluff to Nome for seven and
one half hours in a blinding
blizzard that sent tihi thermometer
down to 35 (degrees
below zero. V
Balto Live* On
to "Mush" Again
NOME, Alaska, Feb. 9.—
Balto, lead dog in the team of
Gunnar Kasson, of this city,
the hero of the final run of a
relay in which 300,000 units
of anti-toxin were brought to
Nome a week ago to fight a
diphtheria epidemic, ( is not
dead, as reported front Fairbanks,
Alaska. Nor did any
other ol! Kasson's dogs die,
though four that had come
from the Yukon Valley section
a year ago, were slightly frozen
about the thighs.
All Kasson's dogs were in
harness the next day.
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"We humans fear the beast within the wolf because we do not understand the beast within ourselves" -Gerald Hausman
“For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack”- Rudyard Kipling
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