Togo, not Balto, was the driving force behind the 1925 Serum Run to Nome, which found teams of mushers and sled dogs delivering antitoxin to children suffering from diphtheria Made Possible Through ...

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - The last living survivor of the infamous 1925 Nome diphtheria epidemic died this month at the age of 101. Jirdes Winther Baxter was just 11 months old when her family was in ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome faced a bleak winter. It was hundreds of miles from anywhere, cut off by the frozen sea and unrelenting blizzards, and under siege from a ...

Jirdes Winther Baxter, the last known survivor of a 1925 diphtheria epidemic in Nome, Alaska, that prompted a legendary sled dog relay of nearly 700 miles that delivered a lifesaving serum to that ...

February 2, 1925 was a day of life-saving (and, dare we say, dogged) determination, for that was the day a dog sled team with Balto in the lead entered Nome, Alaska with an emergency supply of ...

An outbreak of diphtheria inspired a celebrated sled dog relay of nearly 700 miles to deliver lifesaving serum to the remote town of Nome. By Jeré Longman Jirdes Winther Baxter, the last known ...