Famously, Balto was in the lead of that team, the dog that became a media sensation, so much so that reporters begged Kaasen into reenacting the entrance into town during daylight so that ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Gunnar Kaasen and with his dog Balto, the heroic dogsled team leader, sit for a portrait in the early 1920s ...

New York's Central Park has a statue dedicated to him, and there's even been a movie about him: a sled dog named Balto. Now he is the focus of a DNA study, 90 years after he died, to see what made ...