Non-Boring History

Non-Boring History

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Non-Boring History
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West With the Wagons (9): Cholera

West With the Wagons (9): Cholera

WEST WITH THE WAGONS For Gold Rush Migrants, the Great Plains Journey Was Often Boring, Anxious, and Terrifying. Here's Some Terrifying.

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Two roads heading northeast and southeast across wide empty valley with powerlines marching into distance
I found it absolutely impossible to capture the Platte River Valley in eastern Nebraska in a photo, but hopefully my attempts are giving you some impression of how big, how flat, and how abso-bloody-…

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