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The cruelest miles : the heroic story of dogs and men in a race against an epidemic / Gay Salisbury & Laney Salisbury.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2003.Description: ix, 303 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0393019624 :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 614.5/123/097986 21
LOC classification:
  • RA644.D6 S25 2003
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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Hardcover Beverly Middle School 614.5 SAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 701803

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.