Iditarod Trail in far less travel. The trail might have been forgotten except for the 1925 diphtheria outbreak in Nome. In one of the final great feats of dog sleds, twenty drivers and teams carried the life-saving serum in 127 hours. Today, the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race serves to commemorate the part the trail and its dog sleds played in the development of Alaska. The Iditarod Trail was a trail that connected a point north of Seward, Alaska, where a forerunner of the Alaska Railroad ended, through Iditarod, Alaska and then to Nome. The trail was about long. The Iditarod Trail's
The Nome Nugget The Nome Nugget The Nome Nugget is a weekly newspaper published on Thursdays in Nome, Alaska, United States and serves the entire Northwest region of Alaska, additionally, it is printed in Anchorage, Alaska for newstands and airports. It was awarded best weekly newspaper in all of Alaska in 2012 by the Alaska Press Club. It is an independent newspaper which is currently owned by the Nugget Publishing Corp. which itself is owned by Diana Haecker and Nils Hahn. The Nome Nugget is Alaska’s oldest newspaper. While the Nome Nugget may be accepted as the oldest newspaper in Alaska, exactly how