United States: “In Want Of Nourishment For To Keep Them Alive”: Climate Fluctuations, Bison Scarcity, And The Smallpox Epidemic Of 1780–82 On The Northern Great Plains

United States: “In Want Of Nourishment For To Keep Them Alive”: Climate Fluctuations, Bison Scarcity, And The Smallpox Epidemic Of 1780–82 On The Northern Great Plains   Adam R. Hodge, 2012   Native American groups sustained appalling population losses when smallpox swept the northern Great Plains from 1780 to 1782. Although the epidemic struck the semisedentary villagers of the upper Missouri the hardest, it also ravaged migratory bison-hunting societies that were theoretically less...

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