The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs... by Gay Salisbury, Laney Salisbury

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In 1925, a deadly diphtheria epidemic swept through icebound Nome, Alaska. The life-saving serum was a thousand miles away, and a blizzard was brewing. Airplanes could not fly in such conditions: only the dogs could do it. Racing against death, twenty dog teams relayed the serum across the... read more

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THERE WERE few worse places on earth to build a town, but Nome had gone up almost overnight after two Swedes and a Norwegian found a nugget the size of a small rock in a creek near the beach.

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Acknowledgments
Map of Alaska
Map of the Route of the 1925 Serum Run

Prologue: Icebound
1 Gold, Men, and Dogs
2 Outbreak
3 Quarantine
4 Gone to the Dogs
5 Flying Machines
6 Hunters of the North
7 The "Rule of the 40s"
8 Along the Yukon Rivere
9 Red Tape
10 The Ice Factory
11 Cold Glory
12 Saved!

Epilogue: End of the Trail

Appendix A
Appendix B
Authors' Note
Source Notes
Selected Bibliography

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Gay Salisbury (Author)
Laney Salisbury (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Norton
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2003
ISBN: 0393019624
Page Count: 317

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Library of Congress: RA644.D6 S25 2003
Dewey: 614.5'123'097986

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Books › History › Americas › United States › State & Local › Alaska
Books › Home & Garden › Animal Care & Pets › Dogs
Books › Sports › Winter Sports › Iditarod & Dog-Sledding
Books › Medicine › Special Topics › History

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The Cruelest Miles (2003) (edit title/settings)

The Heroic Story of Dogs And Men in a Race Against an Epidemic

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