Gunnar Kaasen | |
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Born | |
Died | November 27, 1960 Everett, Washington, United States | (aged 78)
Occupation | Musher |
Gunnar Kaasen (March 11, 1882 – November 27, 1960) was a Norwegian-born musher who delivered a cylinder containing 300,000 units of diphtheria antitoxin to Nome, Alaska, in 1925, as the last leg of a dog sled relay that saved the U.S. city from an epidemic.[1][2]