The cruelest miles :
Salisbury, Gay.
The cruelest miles : the heroic story of dogs and men in a race against an epidemic / Gay Salisbury & Laney Salisbury. - New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2003. - ix, 303 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-302).
Gold, men, and dogs -- Outbreak -- Quarantine -- Gone to the dogs -- Flying machines -- Hunters of the North -- Rule of the 40's -- The real heroes were dogs -- Red tape -- The ice factory -- Up against it good and strong -- Saved.
The story of the 1925 Nome, Alaska, diphtheria epidemic describes the plight of the patients, with a blizzard imminent and the much-needed serum seven hundred miles away, as teams of sled dogs and their drivers become the only hope for survival.
0393019624 : $24.95
2002156444
Diphtheria.
Epidemics--Nome (Alaska)
Sled dogs.
RA644.D6 / S25 2003
614.5/123/097986
The cruelest miles : the heroic story of dogs and men in a race against an epidemic / Gay Salisbury & Laney Salisbury. - New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2003. - ix, 303 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-302).
Gold, men, and dogs -- Outbreak -- Quarantine -- Gone to the dogs -- Flying machines -- Hunters of the North -- Rule of the 40's -- The real heroes were dogs -- Red tape -- The ice factory -- Up against it good and strong -- Saved.
The story of the 1925 Nome, Alaska, diphtheria epidemic describes the plight of the patients, with a blizzard imminent and the much-needed serum seven hundred miles away, as teams of sled dogs and their drivers become the only hope for survival.
0393019624 : $24.95
2002156444
Diphtheria.
Epidemics--Nome (Alaska)
Sled dogs.
RA644.D6 / S25 2003
614.5/123/097986