Samuel Balto was a Norwegian explorer and adventurer. A Sami from the town Karasjok he was recruted by Fridtjof Nansen for an expedition to Greenland in 1888 and participated in the first recorded crossing of the interior of the island together with Nansen and four other expedition members.
Balto later emigrated to the United States of America with a large group of Samis hired as a reindeer herdsmen in Alaska and eventually became a gold miner.
The legendary sled dogBalto, infamous for transporting medication against diphtheria to the isolated town Nome in 1925, was named after Samuel Balto.
Balto (1922 – March 14, 1933) was a 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 Nome by dog sled to combat an outbreak of the disease.
Balto and his companions were bought by vaudeville sideshow operators and toured the country for the next two years.
Balto died in Cleveland on March 14, 1933, at 11 years old; his body was stuffed and placed on display in the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.
A Sami from the town Karasjok he was recruted by Fridtjof Nansen for an expedition to Greenland in 1888 and participated in the first recorded crossing of the interior of the island together with Nansen and four other expedition members.
Balto later emigrated to the United States with a large group of Samis hired as reindeer herdsmen in Alaska and eventually became a gold miner.
The legendary sled dog Balto, who became famous during the 1925 serum run to Nome, which transported diphtheria medication across the U.S. territory of Alaska to combat an epidemic, was named after SamuelBalto.
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