| Summary: | While dogsleds seemed the best way to travel in the Alaskan snow, a few intrepid people tried bicycles. In February 1900, one young man left Dawson on a bicycle he'd learned to ride a week earlier. He traveled on the frozen Yukon arrived in Nome just over a month later. He arrived exhausted and nearly snowblind, but he said that he was relieved not to have had to cook dogfood for his bicycle. This photo of a dog team and a cyclist was taken in Nome in 1901 or 1902. 1 photographic print mounted on cardboard : gelatin, b&w; 14 x 19 cm.
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