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Salisbury, Gay.
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Diphtheria -- Alaska -- Nome.
Sled dogs.
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The cruelest miles [...
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The cruelest miles [electronic resource] : the heroic story of dogs and men in a race against an epidemic / Gay Salisbury & Laney Salisbury.
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Salisbury, Gay.
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., [2003]
Subjects
Diphtheria -- Alaska -- Nome.
Sled dogs.
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ISBN:
9780393076219 (electronic bk.)
0393076210 (electronic bk.)
0393019624
9780393019629
0393325709
9780393325706
Description:
1 online resource (ix, 303 pages) : illustrations, maps
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.
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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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