The Associated Press on MSN14d
Mushers and dogs braved a horrific Alaska winter to deliver lifesaving serum 100 years ago
The Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome was hundreds of miles from anywhere, cut off by the frozen sea and under siege from a contagious disease known as the “strangling angel” for the way it suffocated chi ...
The New York Times28d
GOLD FOUND IN ALASKA.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 17.--Several months ago mention was made of a prospecting party having started for the upper waters of the Yukon River, Alaska, under the lead of Edward Schuffelin a veteran miner.