A detailed recounting of the people and events involved in the serum run, including the story of the native mushers and the local nurses who attended to the sick and dying, is given in the 2003 book, The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic, by Gay and Laney Salisbury.
Kisah orang-orang yang terlibat beserta peristiwa yang terjadi dalam pengiriman serum ini, termasuk kisah para pemacu pribumi dan perawat lokal yang merawat orang-orang sakit dan sekarat, diceritakan dalam buku The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic (2003) karya Gay dan Laney Salisbury.