How did mountain men, cowboys, or settlers going west purify water before drinking? Survival shows today have people boiling it or some sort of...
Water Purification
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cholera
Disease In The Frontier Army Far more soldiers died from or were treated for Cholera, dysentery, malaria, fevers and other afflictions than from combat wounds...
General William Tecumseh Sherman reported in 1869: The efficiency of the frontier army which averaged about 20,000 men in the period 1855-1875...
The Fastest Killer in the Old West
In August 1873, Dr. J.B. Van Velson, city physician for Yankton, capital of Dakota Territory, reported upon the arrival of some Russian emigrants...