Frontier people led a hardscrabble life. There were many perils confronting folks but the most dreaded was illness and disease. Almost all families...

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Frontier people led a hardscrabble life. There were many perils confronting folks but the most dreaded was illness and disease. Almost all families...
Smallpox was the scourge of the West, especially to the Indians. It attacked whole tribes and left few survivors. It has afflicted Native Americans...
A few years ago an activist wrote a revisionist history about the Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1837 claiming the U.S. Army deliberately infected a...