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Bill Shannon Launches The Serum Run
The Great Race of Mercy kicked off after the package of serum weighing 20 pounds or 9 kilograms was delivered to the first musher named William “Wild Bill” Shannon. The delivery was made at the train station in Nenana by 9:00 pm on the 27th of January.
The weather was −46 °C, a frost so strong it could snap off a man’s fingers without him realizing it. Shannon’s dogs, 11 in number, were mostly inexperienced and had never been on a trip of such circumstance. All the odds were against him, but the lives of thousands of people and children were at stake, so he plowed on.
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