I was reading 'Good Little Bad Man', the story of Colorado Charley Utter. It was noted that Charley had the habit, thought odd at the time, of...
Hygiene In The West Saturday night bath?
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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...