The Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome was hundreds of miles from anywhere and under siege from a contagious disease known as the ...

Mears was chairman of the Alaska Engineering Commission and the ... Prior to construction, passengers and freight were ferried across the river. Nenana Mayor Joshua Verhagen said he grew up ...

Instead, officials shipped the serum by rail to Nenana in interior Alaska, some 675 miles (1,086 kilometers) from Nome via the frozen Yukon River and mail trails. Thanks to Alaska’s new ...

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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 ...