Empire's edge : American society in Nome, Alaska, 1898-1934

Introduction : context and themes -- Forging Americanness -- Reaching for empire -- Winning -- Community -- Struggle -- Settling.

Back of the pack : an Iditarod rookie musher's Alaska pilgrimage to Nome

The Alaska flying expedition : the U.S. Army's 1920 New York to Nome flight

U.S. Army's 1920 New York to Nome flight

Winterdance : the fine madness of running the Iditarod

Winter dance

Dogs -- Beginnings -- Dogs from hell -- Major wrecks -- Becoming dog -- First snow -- Alaska -- Race -- Pre-race -- Eagle River -- Skwentva -- Finger Lake -- Rainy Pass -- Dalzell Gorge and the Burn -- McGrath -- Interior -- Don's cabin -- Shageluk -- Yukon -- Unalakleet -- Norton Sound -- Nome.

Nome poems

Letter sent to Mark Rozema.

I. Welcome to Nome -- Shorty's fiddle -- Anecdotes -- Nome post office -- Small planes near Nome -- Smart girl -- Winter's five miles away -- Nome trooper -- Nome Bypass Road -- The Board of Trade Saloon.

II. An evening of local poetry sponsored by the Nome Arts Council -- The eye of the cold -- Nome magistrate -- The Sunday New York Times -- The big village -- Wesley -- Sid's journal check -- Inupiat blood -- Runaway -- Nome industry -- Into the white -- December 26, Wales.

III. Nome newspaperman -- Third Street, Nome -- The littlest house in all of Teller -- Midnight -- Nine pieces of paper -- Polar Bar, Nome -- Village fiddle -- The victim.

IV. Resolution -- January flight: Nome to Kotzebue -- Irma -- Dreaming of crab -- Babysitting, St. Lawrence Island -- The visitation -- Nome calendar -- Nome hoofer -- Class party, Nome -- Exit papers, Nome -- Inner Nome.

V. Poetry reading, Brevig Mission -- Plane wreck -- Emergency room -- Concussed -- Brain bruised -- In the Anchor Tavern -- Nome celebrity -- Post-crash paperwork -- After the plane crash.

VI. Betty's igloo, a bed & breakfast -- The Arctic thumb -- Big-little town -- Moving sale -- Twin dragon lunch -- Flight out -- Missionary -- Gnome -- I jokes -- Name?

The race to Nome; the story of the heroic Alaskan dog teams that rushed diphtheria serum to stricken Nome in 1925.

A Breakthrough book

Breakthrough book.

Balto, sled dog of Alaska

Famous animal stories

Balto and the great race

The cruelest miles : the heroic story of dogs and men in a race against an epidemic

The bravest dog ever : the true story of Balto

Step into reading. A Step 2 book

Step into reading. Step 2 book.

Alaska gold : life on the new frontier, 1898-1906 : letters and photographs of the McDaniel brothers

Wild voice of the North