Dog team and bicycle rider at Nome, ca. 1901

• Main Author: Unknown
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Bicycles & tricycles; Dog teams; Gold rushes; Log cabins; Sleds & sleighs; Yukon; Dawson; Nome; Alaska
• Online Access: http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsmohai/id/7202

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.