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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Disease
A Plague Hits Close to Home
A lost family connection is reclaimed.
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...
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What illness did Jim Bowie have that confined him to a cot just before the final Mexican attack on the Alamo?