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50% off regular price for new customers. Upfront payment required $45 for 3 months, $90 for 6 month or $180 for 12 month plan taxes and fees. Extra speeds may slow after 50 gigabytes per month when network is Bus the History Channel Original podcast on January 5th just a couple of weeks ago, Jerdis Winther Baxter passed away. At 101 years old, she was the last survivor of the 1925 diphtheria epidemic that struck Nome, Alaska. A couple years ago. We covered the heroic story of the serum run and the dogsled team that brought this life saving vaccine to the people of nome, including an 11 month old Baxter. Today that run is celebrated with the annual Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race and now we are bringing you that episode again. We will be back with new episodes very soon, so stay tuned and enjoy this classic story. History this week, January 27th, 1925. I'm Sally Helm. The temperature is hovering around minus 50 degrees. So cold that sharp ice crystals form as you breathe. It feels like a bee sting to the nose. So cold that exposing your bare flesh to the air would feel like a burn, like a hot iron pressed against your skin. In fact, that skin might actually start steaming as the water vapor that's always flowing through your body was pulled out by the cold. Leave your hand in the air too long and Pretty soon, well say goodbye to that hand. Lost to frostbite, things are different at minus 50 degrees. If you have to be outside exposed to the elements, there is simply no room for error. In the railway station in Nenana, Alaska, Wild Bill Shannon is waiting for a train. He is well acquainted with the harshness of the environment. He wears thick gloves and a knee length bearskin coat and he watches the tracks, anxious, waiting for a very important delivery. Nenana is located roughly in the center of Alaska. 674 miles by trail to the west is the town of Nome. And there are terrifying reports coming out of Nome about children dying. The town has been struck by an outbreak of diphtheria, a disease that leaves its victims gasping for air. It's especially dangerous if you're young. If this epidemic goes unchecked, all of the children in Nome could die. A life saving serum does exist, but Nome doesn't have enough. And so that is why Wild Bill Shannon is waiting at the end of the train line in Nenana. A package of that serum is about to arrive and he is going to help carry it out to the coast to Nomency. Finally, Shannon hears the chugging of the train before it's even fully come to a stop. The conductor jumps off and runs over holding the 20 pound package of serum. It's wrapped in fur to keep it from freezing. Shannon takes the package and then walks it over to his sled and his dogs. The only reliable way to get this serum across the frozen Alaskan wilderness is by dog sled. And Shannon will not be doing it alone. There are other mushers standing ready to pass the serum off in a relay. While Bill Shannon has to complete the first leg with his dogs, including his lead dog, Blackie. He'll pass the serum off to other mushers and their dogs, Togo and Balto. The serum must reach the children as soon as possible. The stakes are life and death. So Wild Bill Shannon steps onto his sled behind his team and launches into the darkness. Today, the gnome serum run. How did the survival of thousands come to depend on a dog sled relay? And how did mushers and dogs alike risk their lives in a desperate attempt to save others? Nome, Alaska. A former mining town on the edge of the Bering Sea. During the gold rush years at the turn of the century, Nome was home to about 15,000 people. But by the 1920s, empty storefronts dot the main road and only 10% of that population remains.