ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The cruise ship with about 1,000 passengers anchored off Nome, too big to squeeze into the tundra city's tiny port. Its well-heeled tourists had to shimmy into small boats ...

Nome, Alaska, remembers its saviors — the sled dogs and mushers who raced for more than five days through hypothermia, frostbite, gale-force winds and blinding whiteouts to deliver life-saving serum.

Around 1,400 remained in Nome, making a life in the isolated port city. Located on the Seward Peninsula, Nome was bound by ice for seven months of the year, making shipping impossible. The closest ...