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Listen to Mush! You Huskies radio show hosted by Robert and Michele Forto and fueled by Native Performance Dog Food. On this episode: The Serum Run– A Long Way to Nome with author and musher Von Martin. Listen Now!

The Serum Run: Sled Dogs Save the Day– Part 3

  At three o’clock Charlie Olson left Golovin for the 25-mile run to Bluff.  He fought his way through a blizzard with a gale wind of fifty miles an hour throwing him and his team of seven dogs from the trail time and time again.  The thermometer read thirty below zero, Olson’s hands froze, his […]

The Serum Run: Sled Dogs Save the Day–Part 2

A call for help was flashed across the wires and dog teams were posted at way stations along the route.  In an attempt to bring recognition to all the souls that braved the trail, the following account, in its entirety, was taken from Coppinger’s World of Sled Dogs: From Siberia to Sport Racing (Howell Book […]

The Serum Run: Sled Dogs Save the Day–Part 1

In 1925, the population of Nome, Alaska was just two thousand. Most of the miners, prospectors and adventurers of the gold rush had moved on.  The city was the site of a potential catastrophe, an epidemic of diphtheria.  Diphtheria is a “specific, localized, and superficial bacterial infection.”  It produces a powerful and deadly toxin that […]