They Threw Him Away for Being Too Weak — Twelve Years Later, He Saved an Entire Town

“I had found a natural-born leader. Something I had tried for years to breed.”

Twelve years passed.

By the winter of 1925, Togo was 12 years old — ancient for a sled dog — and he had become Seppala’s lead dog on thousands of miles of Alaskan trail. He weighed just 48 pounds. His muzzle had begun to gray.

And then came the worst news a remote Alaskan town could hear.

Nome was dying.