The cruelest miles : the heroic story of dogs and men in a race against an epidemic / Gay Salisbury & Laney Salisbury.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2003.Description: ix, 303 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cmISBN:- 0393019624 :
- 614.5/123/097986 21
- RA644.D6 S25 2003
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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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.