Balto and the Great Race Chapter 1

Frontier

• a name of an airline

• a border between developed land and unsettled land

• a small town in Alaska

• the beginning of time

Devotion

• loyalty for a person, activity, or cause

• marriage

• a card game for 4

• tension or stress from an undesirable situation

canine

• a metal container

• relating to dogs

• a designated area

• foaming at the bit

musher

• mashing potatoes or other vegetables

• a blinding snowstorm

• a type of food made out of corn

• a driver of a dogsled

harness

• a hardship or difficult time

• straps and fittings for an animal

• a whip

• a small boulder

landscape

• features of an area of countryside or land

• 100 acres of land

• freedom from persecution

• water from a well

crisis

• time of intense difficulty

• a type of jam

• relates to the tundra

diphtheria

• an eskimo name

• a type of juniper tree

• an acute contagious bacterial disease

epidemic

• a very quick spreading of a disease

• a thickening of the skin

• a very cold region in the north

antitoxin serum

• a type of maple syrup

• medication injected into a human or animal to thwart or prevent disease

• a type of dogsled