What About Old West Waste Disposal?

What did Old West towns do about disposal of animal and human waste? Frank Fantozzi San Jose, California They would haul it to the outskirts of town and dump it. As towns grew, and as there was greater knowledge about diseases and germs, disposal got more complicated. In the latter half of the 1800s, a cholera epidemic in the Mississippi Valley killed 3,000, a direct result of poor sanitation. That led to the construction of sanitary landfills. But little else was done until the post-World W