Only one daughter, which has his lupine traits, must be raised by them and devoted goose Boris. The run is commemorated by the annual Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. The dogs were then taken to the Brookside Zoo … now the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo. To Tell you the truth,most of the first movie isn't true,and the last 2 aren't real at all. He wrote articles for numerous publications including National Wildlife magazine and the Anchorage Daily News. Iditarod , Seattle:Alaska Northwest Books, 1991 Bill Sherwonit reported on sled dog racing for over ten years for the Anchorage Times.
However, the race actually celebrates the memory of musher Leonhard Seppala. The Balladeer's Backup Singer 3 voice uncredited. The Balladeer's Choir Member voice uncredited. There is no record of there being a sled dog called Steele that tried to stop him and no record of a female husky called Jenna being his mate. He leads a dog team on a 600-mile trip across the Alaskan wilderness to get medical supplies. .
In early 1925,doctors discovered that there was an outbreak of dipthria,which is a disease that effects the troght that grows and if its not tr … eated with antiserum's in time,it grows so big the victim suffocates and dies and usually effects kids,not adults,in Nome,Alaska and the nearest anti serum was in Anguage which is across Alaska,so the people of Nome decided to use a train to Nenana,and use a musing dog sled teams for the other half. The longest and most hazardous stretch of the run was actually covered by another Norwegian, Leonhard Seppala and his dog team, led by Togo. The Balladeer's Backup Singer 2 voice uncredited. They didn,t notice but they passed their stop,so they ran the rest of the way,and tada,he was famous,but if you don,t think a dog finding his way trough a really really bad blizzard and saving a whole city,well that's your chocie,hes my model,p. The southern route goes from Anchorage to McGrath and then on to Unalakleet.
The only aircraft that could quickly deliver the medicine was ta … ken out of winter storage, but its engine was frozen and would not start; after considering alternatives, officials decided to move the medicine by sled dog. I would just like to point out that the answer above is based on the first movie of the animated film series Balto. Balto was a famous sled dog who was the lead dog in a team that carried vital medicine to Nome during a diphtheria epidemic in 1925. The serum was transported by train from Anchorage to Nenana , where the first musher embarked as part of a relay aimed at delivering the needed serum to Nome. Kaasen did not consider Balto a particularly good lead dog, but Balto proved himself on the Iditarod trail, saving his team in the Topkok River.
Luckeley,the iditarod trail was used to get mail to other city's back when,and Balto ran that trail many,many times and knew how to get home. On March 19, 1927, Balto and six companions were brought to Cleveland and given a hero's welcome in a triumphant parade. Most puppies resemble her and are easily adopted by the Wild West villagers. This event, called the 1925 Serum Run to Nome. Balto spares no effort to protect his stubborn, near-adult pup, which leads to both of them confronting and joining wise old 'wolf shaman' Nava's troop, which needs to make hard choices, requiring a strapping younger leader.
The Balladeer's Choir Member voice uncredited. There is a link below. Balto was a Siberian husky sled dog who led his team 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 sled dog to combat an outbreak of the disease. The serum was later passed to Kaasen. The Cleveland Museum of Natural History declined to return Balto; however, in October 1998, Balto left for a five-month stay at the Anchorage Museum of History and Art which drew record crowds. The Balladeer's Choir Member voice uncredited.
The idea for the Iditarod started with Dorothy Page. The northern route goes from Anchorage to Ophir and then north to Ruby. During a blizzard, Kaasen and his team missed the last sled dog team and had to take the medicine twice as far, which was what eventually brought them to fame. Extra Voices voice Rest of cast listed alphabetically:. Half wolf Balto has a litter with his full husky wife. The Iditarod Trail Committee promotes the Iditarod as a commemoration of the 1925 Anchorage to Nome diphtheria serum del … ivery. The Balladeer's Backup Singer voice uncredited.
The only serum that could stop the outbreak was in Anchorage, nearly a thousand miles 1,600 km away. In 1925, these devices didn't exist. Balto is a hero to America he delivered medicine from anchorage to Nome Alaska in the worst of snow storms when all hope of the sick and the sicks families was lost. On February 2, 1925, the Norwegian Gunnar Kaasen drove his team, led by Balto into Nome. The Iditarod was not patterned after the serum delivery.
Balto was also able to stay on the trail in near whiteout conditions in which Kaasen admitted he could barely see his hand in front of his face. Balto was a wolf-dog mother was wolf father was a husky. The race was patterned after the Sweepstakes races, not the serum run. She also proves a free-spirited rebel, drawn to the wild. Extra Voices voice as Mike McShane.
They made the statue in remembrance of Balto's heroic and fast sled race. The Iditarod was patterned after the All-Alaskan Sweepstakes which were races held in the early 1900s. News coverage of the race was worldwide. From there the dogs ran the remaining 674 miles in relays to Norton Sound and up the Bering Sea Coast to Nome. In January 1925, doctors realized that a potentially deadly diphtheria epidemic was poised to sweep through Nome's young people. In reality, 'Seppala was picked to represent all the mushers,' Page stressed. The Balladeer's Choir Member voice uncredited.