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Mushers and dogs braved a horrific Alaska winter to deliver lifesaving serum 100 years ago
Mushers and dogs braved a horrific Alaska winter to deliver lifesaving serum 100 years ago
Mushers and dogs braved a horrific Alaska winter to deliver lifesaving serum 100 years ago

Published on: 02/05/2025

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Gunnar Kaasen and with his dog Balto, the heroic dogsled team leader, sit for a portrait in the early 1920s. (AP Photo, File)

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome faced a bleak winter. It was hundreds of miles from anywhere, cut off by the frozen sea and unrelenting blizzards, and under siege from a contagious disease known as the “strangling angel” for the way it suffocated children.

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