Pestilence and Power: The Smallpox Epidemic of 1780–1782 and Intertribal Relations on the Northern Great Plains
@article{Hodge2010PestilenceAP,
title={Pestilence and Power: The Smallpox Epidemic of 1780–1782 and Intertribal Relations on the Northern Great Plains},
author={Adam R. Hodge},
journal={The Historian},
year={2010},
volume={72},
pages={543 - 567}
}Traveling along the Missouri River in 1796, trader James McKay learned of local Indians’ problems with infectious diseases and remarked that “of all those Scourges and Plagues, the most Terrible is...
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