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- Title
Twisted Rails A Bering Sea Storm Halts America's Intercontinental Railroad.
- Authors
Setzer, Kenneth
- Abstract
The article discusses the history and expansion of Nome, Alaska. It examines its economic development and growth following the discovery of gold, the construction of the Council City & Solomon River Railroad (CC&SRR), and the Serum Run of 1925, which the article states is commemorated annually by the Iditarod sled dog race. The article also describes a 1913 sea storm that afflicted Nome and destroyed the CC&SRR.
- Subjects
NOME (Alaska); ALASKA; RAILROADS; OCEAN conditions (Weather); IDITAROD Trail Sled Dog Race, Alaska; ALASKA state history; TWENTIETH century; HISTORY; SOCIAL history; ECONOMIC history
- Publication
Journal of the West, 2012, Vol 51, Issue 1, p71
- ISSN
0022-5169
- Publication type
Article