Download or read book The Race to Nome written by Kenneth A. Ungermann and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1925, Dr. Curis Welch, in Nome, Alaska, diagnosed two cases of diphtheria. He had only enough serum on hand for a few injections. While the virus is dangerous to anyone, the native population had little resistance to this "white man's" disease. It would surely kill them. 300,000 units of serum were sent by train from Anchorage to Nenana. From there, the serum was relayed to Nome by twenty dog teams, across 674 miles in sub zero weather. The serum arrived in 27.5 hours. The event is commemorated today by the Iditarod Sled Dog Race.
Download or read book Endless Mercy The Treasures of Nome Book 2 written by Tracie Peterson and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madysen Powell has always been a forgiving person, but when her supposedly dead father shows up in Nome, Alaska, her gift for forgiveness is tested. With the recent loss of her mother, she searches for answers, leaning on Granny Beaufort, a neighbor in town, who listens with a kind heart. Still, Madysen is restless and dreams of performing her music around the world. The arrival of a traveling show could prove just the chance she needs, and the manager promises more than she ever dreamed. Daniel Beaufort arrives in Nome, searching for his own answers after the gold rush leaves him with only empty pockets. Still angry about the death of his loved ones, he longs to start fresh but doesn't have high hopes until he ends up helping at the Powell dairy making cheese. Drawn to the beautiful redhead with big dreams, will deceptions from the past tear apart any hope for the future?
Download or read book No Place Like Nome written by Matt Snader and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cruelest Miles The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic written by Gay Salisbury and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2005-02-17 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A stirring tale of survival, thanks to man's best friend." —Seattle Times When a deadly diphtheria epidemic swept through Nome, Alaska, in 1925, the local doctor knew that without a fresh batch of antitoxin, his patients would die. The lifesaving serum was a thousand miles away, the port was icebound, and planes couldn't fly in blizzard conditions—only the dogs could make it. The heroic dash of dog teams across the Alaskan wilderness to Nome inspired the annual Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race and immortalized Balto, the lead dog of the last team whose bronze statue still stands in New York City's Central Park. This is the greatest dog story, never fully told until now.
Download or read book The Archaeology of Cape Nome Alaska written by John Bockstoce and published by UPenn Museum of Archaeology. This book was released on 1979-01-29 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Review of past and present knowledge, and detailed account of excavations and archaeological findings.
Download or read book Souvenir of Nome Alaska written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Community Profile Nome Alaska written by Alaska. Division of Economic Enterprise and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Waters Beneath My Feet written by Jerry Pushcar and published by Last Cache Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three years across the North American continent in a canoe, all alone, Jerry Pushcar accomplished something that at times even he didn't think was possible. Waters Beneath My Feet is the story of Pushcar's incredible journey from New Orleans, Louisiana to Nome, Alaska.
Download or read book Sea Wall at Nome Alaska written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Rivers and Harbors and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gnome from Nome written by Stephen Cosgrove and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the bitter cold of the North Pole lived a lonely little gnome called Alappuu. Worse than being lonely was that he was cold from the inside out. He could warm his fingers, warm his toes, but never could he get his frozen heart to glow. In desperation he packed everything he owned and traveled south to the little town of Nome, Alaska, in search of the answer to his frozen dilemma. Joined by a delightful otter, the two soon discover the heart-warming secret now to be shared by all. The story, wrapped in gentle historic fact, will warm the hearts of young and old alike. This is a wonderful book from author Stephen Cosgrove and illustrator Robin James, creators of the much-loved Serendipity Books.
Download or read book Shore Protection at Nome Alaska written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Facts about Nome Alaska written by Northwestern Alaska Chamber of Commerce and published by . This book was released on 196? with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sea Wall at Nome Alaska Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Rivers and Harbors of 80 1 and 2 on H R 6228 written by United States. Congress. House. Public Works Committee and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On Call in the Arctic written by Thomas J Sims and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fish-out-of-water stories of Northern Exposure and Doc Martin meet the rough-and-rugged setting of the Discovery Channel’s Alaskan Bush People in Thomas J. Sims’s On Call in the Arctic, where the author relates his incredible experience saving lives in one of the most remote outposts in North America.Imagine a young doctor, trained in the latest medical knowledge and state-of-the-art equipment, suddenly transported back to one of the world’s most isolated and unforgiving environments—Nome, Alaska. Dr. Sims’ plans to become a pediatric surgeon drastically changed when, on the eve of being drafted into the Army to serve as a M.A.S.H. surgeon in Vietnam, he was offered a commission in the U.S. Public Health for assignment in Anchorage, Alaska.In order to do his job, Dr. Sims had to overcome racism, cultural prejudices, and hostility from those who would like to see him sent packing. On Call in the Arctic reveals the thrills and the terrors of frontier medicine, where Dr. Sims must rely upon his instincts, improvise, and persevere against all odds in order to help his patients on the icy shores of the Bering Sea.
Download or read book Nome Alaska written by William Leroy Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nome and Seward Peninsula written by Edward Sanford Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shadows on the Koyukuk written by Jim Rearden and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I owe Alaska. It gave me everything I have.” Says Sidney Huntington, son of an Athapaskan mother and white trader/trapper father. Growing up on the Koyukuk River in Alaska’s harsh Interior, that “everything” spans 78 years of tragedies and adventures. When his mother died suddenly, 5-year-old Huntington protected and cared for his younger brother and sister during two weeks of isolation. Later, as a teenager, he plied the wilderness traplines with his father, nearly freezing to death several times. One spring, he watched an ice-filled breakup flood sweep his family’s cabin and belongings away. These and many other episodes are the compelling background for the story of a man who learned the lessons of a land and culture, lessons that enabled him to prosper as trapper, boat builder, and fisherman. This is more than one man's incredible tale of hardship and success in Alaska. It is also a tribute to the Athapaskan traditions and spiritual beliefs that enabled him and his ancestors to survive. His story, simply told, is a testament to the durability of Alaska's wild lands and to the strength of the people who inhabit them.
