The Great Serum Race
Blazing the Iditarod Trail
Book - 2002
The story of the heroic role played by sled dogs, including the Siberian husky Togo, in the delivery of antitoxin serum to those stricken with diphtheria in 1925 Nome. Includes historical notes about the event as well as about the Iditarod Sled Dog Race which commemorates it
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Publisher:
New York : Walker & Company, c2002
ISBN:
9780802788122
0802788122
0802788122
Branch Call Number:
J 798.83 Mil
Characteristics:
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill
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Add a CommentWhen a diphtheria epidemic hit Nome, Alaska, in 1925, they needed serum which was in Anchorage, 1000 miles away—and the only way to get it there was by dog sled. Twenty teams took on blizzard conditions and subzero temperatures to save the community. Profusely illustrated.