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Balto was a Siberian Husky named after Sami explorer Samuel Balto. Balto lead Norwegian Musher Gunner Kaasens dog sled team from Nenana to Nome Alaska ; for the serum run Race of Mercy. The Iditarod a dog sled race from anchorage to nome alaska happens ever year as a memorial. Althogh Balto died in 1933 he is still remembered and with three movies about 76 years later he is still remembered.

Events that led up to thed up to the fist Iditarod 1 When the primary communication and transportation link to th rest of the world was the steamship the ports were frozen. Dog sleds became a popular alternative. 2 Their were many more less famous dogsleds races before one of them was the All Alaskan Sweepstakes. 3 The Serum run saved many lives. The trail is also similar to the iditarod trail.

** IDITAROD ** The Iditarod began 1925 the serum ran to Nome also named of the great race of mercy and there was 20 musher’s and there was about 150sled dog got diphtheria and if you got diphtheria you couldn’t race or you would get really sick. The famous in dog sled is Balto.