The cruelest miles : the heroic story of dogs and men in a race against an epidemic / Gay Salisbury & Laney Salisbury.
By: Salisbury, Gay.
Contributor(s): Salisbury, Laney.
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BookPublisher: New York : W.W. Norton, c2003Edition: 1st ed.Description: ix, 303 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.ISBN: 0393019624.Other title: Heroic story of dogs and men in a race against an epidemic.Subject(s): Diphtheria -- Alaska -- Nome | Sled dogs | Diphtheria | Nome (Alaska) | Sled dogsDDC classification: 614.5/123/097986 Summary: Tells the story of the Serum Run, a relay of dog sleds and drivers that was organized to traverse nearly seven hundred miles in temperatures far below zero in a desperate quest to acquire serum to treat a deadly outbreak of diphtheria in Nome, Alaska in 1925.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-303).
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Tells the story of the Serum Run, a relay of dog sleds and drivers that was organized to traverse nearly seven hundred miles in temperatures far below zero in a desperate quest to acquire serum to treat a deadly outbreak of diphtheria in Nome, Alaska in 1925.
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