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

Instead, officials shipped the serum by rail to Nenana in interior Alaska ... temperatures that plunged at times to minus 60 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 51 degrees Celsius). The antitoxin was ...

Instead, officials shipped the serum by rail to Nenana in interior ... The antitoxin was transported in glass vials covered with padded quilts. Not a single vial broke. Seppala, a Norwegian ...

One hundred years ago an outbreak of the deadly disease in the Alaskan outpost of Nome caught the world’s attention.

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, and ...