Cruelest Miles, The
Subtitle: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Published: 2003
Format: Unknown Binding
ISBN-13: 9780375419393
First sentence: THERE WERE few worse places on earth to build a town, but Nome had gone up almost overnight after two Swedes and a Norwegian found a nugget the size of a small rock in a creek near the beach.