Diphtheria Folder, Daily Medical Reports
Mark Summers Collection
Cleveland Museum Of Natural History
Balto Exhibit Materials
Mounted Balto, Cold Storage
International Siberian Husky Club, Elkorn, Wisconsin
Breed's History
Leonhard Seppala, personal papers
Kawerak, Inc. Native Corp., Nome
Oral History Transcripts of Eskimos in Nome
Merck & Company, Archives, Whitehorse, New Jersey
Company History and Antitoxin Products/Research and Development
1925 Diphtheria Epidemic Files
National Archives, Washington, D.C.
Department of the Interior, Governor's Correspondence, Record Group 348
Records of the Judge Advocate General of the Navy, Navy Examining Boards 1890-1941, Record Group 125
U.S. Public Health Service, General Correspondence, Record Group 90
Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont
Togo Campaign for Return to Alaska Records
Siberian Husky Club Archives, Toronto, Canada
University of Alaska, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks
Weather Maps, Daily, January 1925-February 1925
University of Alaska, Rasmuson Library, Fairbanks
Alaska Missions Collection
Alaska Nurses Collection
Iditarod Trail Oral History Project, Bureau of Land Management; 1980 transcripts of interviews with surviving 1925 mushers (H83-16-15-H83-16-22)
June Metcalf Collection
William Mitchell Collection
Leonhard Seppala Collection
Daniel Sutherland Collection
James Wickersham Collection
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Medical College Archives, Dr. Welch Personal File
Peabody Museum Archives, Togo Taxidermy Records
Government Publications
Bureau of Land Management. Iditarod National Historic Trail, Seward to Nome Route, A Comprehensive Management Plan. Anchorage: U.S. Department of the Interior, 1986.
Bureau of Land Management. Iditarod Trail Oral History Project (tapes). Anchorage: U.S. Department of the Interior, 1980-81.
Central Intelligence Agency. Polar Regions Atlas. Washington, D.C: CIA, 1978.
LaBelle, Joseph C, and James L. Wise. Alaska Marine Ice Atlas. Fairbanks: Arctic Environmental Information and Data Center, University of Alaska, 1983.
United States Department of Commerce. Coast and Geodetic Survey, United States Coast Pilot 9, Pacific and Arctic Coasts, 7th edn. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office.
United States Department of Commerce, Weather Bureau. 1959. Climates of the States: Alaska. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office.
United States Department of Commerce, Weather Bureau. 1963. Climatic Summary of Alaska: Supplement for 1922 Through 1952. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office.
Principal Newspapers: 1925
Alaska Daily Empire
Anchorage Daily Alaskan
Anchorage Daily News
Anchorage Daily Times
Anchorage Weekly Alaskan
Chicago Daily Tribune
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Cleveland Press
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Los Angeles Times
The New York Evening Post
The New York Herald Tribune
The New York Sun
The New York Times
The New York World
Nome Daily Gold Digger
Nome Daily Nugget
Nome Nugget
San Francisco Chronicle
Seattle Daily Times
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Seattle Sunday Times
Seattle Union Record
Tacoma News Tribune
Tacoma Times Washington Herald
The Washington Post
Books
Allan, Alexander. Gold, Men and Dogs. New York & London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1931.
Amundsen, Captain Roald. The South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antartic Expedition in the Fram, 1910-1912. New York: Cooper Square Press, 2001.
Berton, Pierre. The Klondike Fever: The Life and Death of the Last Great Gold Rush. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1985.
Bowers, Don. Back of the Pack: An Iditarod Rookie Mushers Alaska Pilgrimage to Nome. Anchorage: Publication Consultants, 1998.
Brooks, Alfred Hulse. Blazing Alaska’s Trails. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 1953.
Burch, Ernest S., Jr. The Inupiaq Eskimo Nations of Northwest Alaska. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 1998.
Caldwell, Elsie Noble. Alaska’s Trail Dogs. New York: Richard R. Smith, 1950.
Carrighar, Sally. Moonlight at Midday. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967.
----. Wild Voice of the North: The Chronicle of an Eskimo Dog. New York: Doubleday & Company, 1959.
Cellura, Dominique. Travelers of the Cold: Sled Dogs of the Far North. Anchorage & Seattle: Alaska Northwest Books, 1989.
Chase, Allan. Magic Shots. New York: William Morrow & Co., 1982.
Colby, Merle. A Guide to Alaska: Last American Frontier. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1939.
Cole, Terrence. Banking on Alaska: The Story of the National Bank of Alaska, 2 vols. Anchorage: National Bank of Alaska, 2000.
----. Crooked Past: The History of a Frontier Mining Camp: Fairbanks Alaska. Alaska: University of Alaska Press, 1991.
----. A History of the Nome Gold Rush: The Poor Man's Paradise. PhD dissertation, University of Washington, 1983.
----. Nome: City of the Golden Beaches. Anchorage: Alaska Geographic Society, 1984.
Collins, Julie, and Miki Collins. Trapline Twins. Anchorage: Alaska Northwest Books, 1989.
Cook, Ann Mariah. Running North: A Yukon Adventure. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1998.
Coppinger, Lorna. The World of Sled Dogs: From Siberia to Sport Racing. New York: Howell Book House, 1977.
Coppinger, Raymond, and Lorna Coppinger. Dogs: A Startling New Understanding Of Canine Origin, Behavior and Evolution. New York & London: Scribners, 2001.
Corbin, Wilford. A World Apart: My Life Among the Eskimos of Alaska. Alaska: Wizard Works, 2000.
Coren, Stanley. The Intelligence of Dogs: A Guide to the Thoughts, Emotions, and Inner Lives of Our Canine Companions. New York & London: Bantam Books, 1994.
Cushman, Dan. The Great North Trail: Americas Route of the Ages, in American Trails series, ed. A. B. Guthrie, Jr. New York & London: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1966.
Darling, Esther Birdsall. Baldy of Nome. Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Co., 1916.
----. The Great Dog Races of Nome, Official Souvenir History (1916). Knik, Alaska: Iditarod Trail Committee, 1969.
Davis, Mary Lee Cadwell. We Are All Alaskans. Boston: W. A. Wilde Co., 1931.
Deer, Mark. Dog's Best Friend: Annals of the Dog-Human Relationship. New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1997.
Demidoff, Lorna B. The Complete Siberian Husky. New York: Howell Book House, 1978.
Dufresne, Frank. My Way Was North: An Alaskan Autobiography. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1966.
Edingtons, the. Tundra: Romance and Adventure on Alaskan Trails. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1930.
Fitzhugh,William W, and Aron Cromwell, eds. Crossroads of Continents: Cultures of Siberia and Alaska. Washington, D.C., & London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1988.
Fitzhugh, William W, and Susan A. Kaplan. Inua: Spirit World of the Bering Sea Eskimo. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1982.
Fortuine, Dr. Robert. Chills & Fever: Health and Disease in the Early History of Alaska. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 1989.
Freedman, Lewis. George Attla: The Legend of the Sled Dog Trail. Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1993.
Garst, Shannon. Scotty Allan: King of the Dog-Team Drivers. New York: Julian Messner, 1946.
Hammonds, Evelynn Maxine. Childhoods Deadly Scourge: The Campaign to Control Diphtheria in New York City, 1880-1930. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
Harkey, Ira. Pioneer Bush Pilot: The Story of Noel Wien. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1974.
Hunt, William R. Arctic Passage: The Turbulent History of the Land and People of the Bering Sea 1697-1975. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975.
----. North of 53 Degrees: The Wild Days of the Alaskan-Yukon Mining Frontier 1870-1914. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1974.
Huntford, Roland. The Last Place on Earth. New York: Atheneum, 1985.
Huntington, Sidney, as told to Jim Rearden. Shadows on the Koyukuk. Portland, OR: Alaska Northwest Books, 1993.
International Siberian Husky Club. The Siberian Husky, 3rd edn., ed. Pamela Thomas, Ann Stead, and Nancy Wolfe. Elkhorn, WI: International Siberian Husky Club, 1994.
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow. North to the Orient. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1935.
Lopez, Barry. Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape. New York: Bantam Books, 1987.
Marshall, Max, ed. The Story of the U.S. Army Signal Corps. New York: Franklin Watts, 1965.
McLain, Carrie. Gold Rush Nome. Portland, OR: Graphic Arts Center, 1969.
Naske, Claus-M. An Interpretative History of Alaskan Statehood. Anchorage: Northwest Publishing Company, 1973.
Place, Marian T. New York to Nome: The First International Cross-Country Flight. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1972.
Poling, John. A History of the Nome, Alaska Public Schools: 1899 to 1958; From the Gold Rush to Statehood, master's thesis, University of Alaska, 1970.
Nelson, Edward William. The Eskimos About Bering Strait. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1983.
Nelson, Richard K. Hunters of the Northern Forest: Designs for Survival Among the Alaskan Kutchin. Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1973.
----. Hunters of the Northern Ice. Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1969.
O'Brien, John. Dog Sled for Byrd: 1600 Miles Across Antarctic Sea Ice. Chicago: Thomas S. Rockwell Co., 1931.
O'Donoghue, Brian Patrick. Honest Dogs: A Story of Triumph and Regret from the Worlds Toughest Sled Dog Race. Portland, OR: Epicenter Press, 1999.
Oswalt, Wendell H. Eskimos and Explorers, 2nd edn. Lincoln & London: University of Nebraska Press, 1979.
Pease, Eleanor Fairchild. Brave Tales of Real Dogs. Chicago: Albert Whitman & Co., 1931.
Potter, Jean. The Flying North: The Thrilling Story of the Bush Pilots in Alaska 1920-1945. New York: Ballantine Books, 1945.
Ray, Dorothy Jean. The Eskimos of Bering Strait, 1650-1898. Seattle & London: University of Washington Press, 1975.
----. Ethnohistory in the Arctic: The Bering Strait Eskimo, ed. R. A. Pierce. Ontario: Limestone Press, 1983.
Reit, Seymour. Race Against Death. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1976.
Renner, Louis, S.J. Pioneer Missionary to the Bering Strait Eskimos: Bellarmine Lafortune, S.J. Portland, OR: Binford & Mort, 1979.
Rennick, Penny, ed. Dogs of the North. Anchorage: Alaska Geographic Society, 1987.
Ricker, Elizabeth M., with Leonhard Seppala. Seppala: Alaskan Dog Driver. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1930.
----. Togo's Fireside Reflections. Lewiston, ME: Lewiston Journal Printshop, 1928.
Riddle, Maxwell, and Eva Seeley. The Complete Alaskan Malamute. New York: Howell Book House, 1976.
Riddles, Libby, and Tim Jones. The Race Across Alaska. Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1988.
Roseberry, Cecil. The Challenging Skies. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1966.
Schwartz, Marion. A History of Dogs in the Early Americas. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.
Scott, Alastair. Tracks Across Alaska: A Dog Sled Journey. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990.
Sherwonit, Bill. Iditarod: The Great Race to Nome. Anchorage: Northwest Books, 1991.
Smith, Herschel. A History of Aircraft Piston Engines. Manhattan, KS: Sunflower University Press, 1986.
Solka, Paul Jr., and Art Bremer. Adventures in Alaska Journalism. Fairbanks: Commercial Printing Co., 1980.
Stefansson, Vilhjalmur. Arctic Manual. Prepared under direction of the Chief of the Air Corps United States Army. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1957.
----. The Friendly Arctic: The Story of Five Years in Polar Regions. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1921.
----. Hunters of the Great North. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1922.
----. My Life with the Eskimo. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1922.
Stevens, Robert W. Alaskan Aviation History. Vol. 1: 1897-1928. Des Moines, WA: Polynyas Press, 1990.
Stuck, Hudson. Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled: A Narrative of Winter
----. Travel in Interior Alaska. Lincoln & London: University of Nebraska Press, 1988.
Swenson, Olaf. Northwest of the World: Forty Years Trading and Hunting in Northern Siberia. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1944.
Tabbert, Russ. Dictionary of Alaskan English. Juneau, AK: Denali Park, 1991.
Tanner, John Douglas, Jr. Alaska Trails — Siberian Dogs. Wheat Ridge, CO: Hoflin Publishing, 1986.
Thompson, Raymond. Seppala's Saga of the Sled Dog, 2 vols. Lynwood, WA, no publisher, 1977.
Ungermann, Kenneth A. The Race to Nome: Alaska’s Heroic Race to Save Lives. Sunnyvale, CA: Press North America/Nulbay Associates, 1993.
Van der Linden, F. Robert. Airlines and Air-Mail: The Post Office and the Birth of the Commercial Aviation Industry. Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 2002.
Vaudrin, Bill. Racing Alaskan Sled Dogs. Anchorage: Alaska Northwest Publishing Co., 1976.
Vaughan, Norman D., with Cecil B. Murphy. With Byrdat the Bottom of the World: The South Expedition of 1928-1930. Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1990.
Walden, Arthur T. A Dog-Puncher on the Yukon. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1931.
Wickersham, James. Old Yukon: Tales, Trails, Trials. Washington, D.C.: Washington Law Book Company, 1938.
Willoughby, Barrett. Alaskans All. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1933.
----. Gentlemen Unafraid. New York & London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1928.
Wirt, Loyal Lincoln. Alaskan Adventures. New York: Fleming H. Revell Co., 1937.
Wood, W. Barry. Miasmas and Molecules. New York & London: Columbia University Press, 1961.
Young, Edgerton. My Dogs in the Northland. London: S. W. Partridge & Co., 1902.
Yukon-Koyukuk School District of Alaska. Bill McCarty, Sr.: A Biography. Fairbanks: Spirit Mountain Press, 1982.
----. Edgar Kallands: A Biography. Fairbanks: Spirit Mountain Press, 1983.
Articles
Adams, Mildred. "Dogs That Rank As Heroes Have a Hall of Fame," The New York Times Magazine, January 3, 1930.
Akasofu, S.-I. "Aurora Borealis: The Amazing Northern Lights," Alaska Geographic, vol. 6, no. 2 (1979).
Beeson, Paul. "Rushing the Serum to the Rescue: A Long House Call," Resident & Staff Physician (April 1990).
Braafladt, O. A. "Men of Iron, Dogs of Speed," Alaska Sportsman (December 1937).
Caulfield, Ernest, M.D. "A True History of the Terrible Epidemic Vulgarly Called the Throat Distemper which occurred in His Majesty's New England Colonies Between the Years 1735-1740," Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine (1935).
Couch, Jim. "Fifty Years of Mushing, "Alaska Sportsman July 1958).
Donohue, Matthew. "All in a Day's Work: Mushers Recall Serum Run of 1925," Alaska Magazine (March 1980).
Dufresne, Frank. "The Greatest Dog Race the World Has Known," Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, February 26, 1927.
----. "Dog Mushing in Alaska," Alaska Sportsman (March 1936).
Kaiser, Henry. "Tracing a Tale of Mushing Heroism," Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Heartland, February 3, 1985.
Lantis, Margaret. "Changes in the Alaskan Eskimo Relations of Man to Dog and The
ir Effects on Two Human Diseases," Arctic Anthropology, vol. XVII, no. 1 (1980).
Nelson, Jerry. "Perils of the Trail: Tales of Early Alaska and Yukon Mail Carriers," Mushing Magazine (January-February 1997).
Offen, Charlotte. "Angel of the Yukon," True West (March-April 1974).
Richardson, Jeffrey. "Serum Runner Remembers," Senior Voice (1986).
Seppala, Leonhard, with Raymond Thompson. "I Met My First Dog 60 Years Ago," Alaska Sportsman (May 1961).
----. "Nome Dog Races," Alaska Sportsman July 1961).
----. "I Won the Nome Sweepstakes," Alaska Sportsman (November 1961).
----. "When Nome Needed Serum," Alaska Sportsman (May 1961).
----. 'When Nome Needed Serum," Alaska Sportsman (January 1962).
Sharp, Henry S. "Man: Wolf, Woman: Dog," Arctic Anthropology, vol. XIII, no. 1 (1976).
Simpson, Sherry. "Heroes of the Mail Trail," Alaska Magazine (February 1996).
Smith, Lorne. "The Mechanical Dog Team: A Study of the Ski-Doo in the Canadian Arctic," Arctic Anthropology, vol. IX, no. 1 (1972).
Waller, Harold, as told to Charles Nadler. "The Alaska Tour of 1913," Alaska Journal, 16 (1986).
Select Interviews
Syun-Ichi Akasofu, Director, International Arctic Research Center, Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska
Ed Blechner, Addison, Vermont
Susan Butcher, Fairbanks, Alaska
Charlie Campbell and Ruth Althoff, Tanana, Alaska
Elsie Chadwick, Siberian Husky Club, Toronto, Canada
Dermot Cole, Daily Columnist, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Prof. Terrence Cole, Chair, History Department, Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska
Ted Fathauer, Lead Forecaster, National Weather Service, Fairbanks, Alaska
Wendy Fitzgerald, Carp, Ontario
Dr. Robert Fortuine, Wasilla, Alaska
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