The cruelest miles

the heroic story of dogs and men in a race against an epidemic

Tells the story of the Serum Run, a relay of dog sleds and drivers that was organized to traverse nearly seven hundred miles in temperatures far below zero in a desperate quest to acquire serum to treat a deadly outbreak of diphtheria in Nome, Alaska in 1925.

W.W. Norton
2003
9780393019629
book

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