This is Angela Odell, and you are listening to Real Cool History for Kids, a podcast show featuring history told from a distinctly biblical worldview perspective. Welcome to an adventure.

Welcome to episode 158 of real cool history for kids. This episode is for three very special little boys.

Zach Eubel, who turned four on June 23rd, Owen Barclay, who is turning six on July 22nd,

and Gabriel Barclay, who is turning four on July 26th. Hey guys, this one's for you.

Before we begin our story, go and grab your globe or map if you can, because it would be great

if you can see where our story is going to take place. Okay. Now, let's find the state of Alaska. It's way up north to the left of Canada.

Now, see if you can find the city of Nome. It's located right on the coast of Alaska, right on the

Bering Sea. Okay, let's begin our story about two amazing dogs who saved an

entire town. That's right. This episode is about two hero dogs. Are you ready for a grand adventure?

We're going to Alaska in the winter of 1925 to the small town of Noam,

and we're going to meet two dogs, Balto and Togo, who became heroes in a race against time.

In January of that year, something terrible happened in Noam. A sickness began to spread. Diphtheria, a disease that can

make it really hard to breathe. Diphtheria is especially dangerous for children. And without medicine,

many of the children of Nome, well, they possibly would have died. There was only one hope, a medicine

called antitoxin. But there was a huge problem. The medicine was more than 600 miles away

in the town of Nenana, and there was no easy way to get it to Nome. Normally, a train or a small

airplane might have carried it, but the train tracks were buried in snow, and the planes couldn't fly

through the storms and the darkness.

Roads didn't go that far north.

The people of Gnome were completely cut off.

But someone had a great idea.

What if they used sled dogs?

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