The Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome was hundreds of miles from anywhere and under siege from a contagious disease known as the "strangling angel." Now, 100 years later, Nome is remembering its saviors, ...

before the Bering Sea froze, without any doses of the antitoxin. Those the local doctor, Curtis Welch, had were outdated, but he wasn’t worried. He hadn’t seen a case of diphtheria in the 18 ...