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082	0	0	_a614.5123 SAL
100	1		_aSalisbury, Gay
245	1	4	_aThe cruelest miles _b: the heroic story of dogs and men in a race against an epidemic _c/ Gay Salisbury & Laney Salisbury
260			_aNew York _b: W.W. Norton & Co. _c, c2003.
300			_aix, 303 p. _b: ill., maps _c; 25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 293-302).
505	0		_aGold, 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.
520			_a"Nome, Alaska, sits on the edge of the Bering Sea two degrees below the Arctic Circle, and there are few more forbidding places on earth, especially in winter. Dr. Curtis Welch knew the signs of diphtheria, knew that his patients - many of them children - would die without a shipment of fresh serum." "The port was icebound and the nearest railhead was almost 700 miles away across mountains, rivers, and the treacherous ice of Norton Sound. A blizzard was brewing, and airplanes, in 1925, could not fly in such conditions. Only the dogs could do it. A relay was set up, and the drivers, many of them Native Alaskans, set off into the night, set out at 60 degrees below zero, often trusting their lead dogs to find the trail under feet of driven snow. The legendary heroism and endurance of the men and dogs in the Serum Run need no enhancement. Here, for the first time, their story is told in full."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
650			_aDiphtheria _z-Alaska _x-Nome
650		0	_aSled dogs
700	1		_aSalisbury, Laney
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