Scott Cordelle Bone

Scott Cordelle Bone

Scott Cordelle Bone (born February 15, 1860 in Shelby County , Indiana , † January 27, 1936 in Santa Barbara , California ) was an American politician and governor of the Alaska Territory from 1921 to 1925 . He was a member of the Republican Party . He gained notoriety in 1925 through his decision to use sled dogs instead of an airplane to transport diphtheria antitoxins over 674 miles to Nome . The transport became known as the " Great Race of Mercy " and is the origin of the Iditarod sled dog race .

Bone belonged to a variety of organizations and held many offices such as: Chairman of the Alaska Bureau of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce , Delegate to numerous Republican National Conventions , Member (and once President) of the Gridiron Club , Member of the National Press Association , Publicity Director of the Republican National Committee , lifelong member of the American Red Cross , the Yacht and Country Club of Tampa Florida , and the Decorated Order of Sacred Treasure of Japan and member of the Elks .

Bone was also the editor of the Washington Post , founded the Washington Herald, and later was an editor at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer . He was also a friend of Presidents Harding , Taft , Roosevelt and his wife Alice Roosevelt .

Scott Cordelle Bone died of a heart attack in Santa Barbara on January 27, 1936 and was buried there.

Works

• Alaska, Its Past, Present, and Future
• Chechahco and Sourdough: A Story of Alaska
• Sketches of Statesmen
• Political Remembrances

literature

• The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic Gay & Laney Salisbury

Web links

• The Political Graveyard (English)
• Scott Cordelle Bone in the database of Find a Grave (English)