The Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome was hundreds of miles from anywhere and under siege from a contagious disease known as the ...

Nome, Alaska, remembers its saviors — the sled dogs and mushers who raced for more than five days through hypothermia, ...

Throughout its rich history in Alaska, the tradition of mushing has changed with the times and shifted to adapt to a changing ...

(The original caption in one of the newspapers of the time) ‘Shown is the type of dog team being used to rush 300,000 units of antitoxin to this city from several points in Alaska to aid in the ...

Instead, officials shipped the serum by rail to Nenana in interior Alaska, some 675 miles from Nome via the frozen Yukon River and mail trails. FILE – Leonhard Seppala and his sled dog team are ...

as 20 mushers — many of them Alaska Natives — with more than 150 dogs relayed the serum to Nome. They battled deep snow, whiteouts so severe they couldn’t see the dogs in front of them ...

Mushers and Dogs Braved a Horrific Alaska Winter to Deliver Lifesaving Serum 100 Years Ago ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome faced a bleak winter. It was hundreds of ...