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West With the Wagons (9): Cholera

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West With the Wagons (9): Cholera

ANNETTE ON THE ROAD/THROWBACK SPECIAL For Gold Rush Migrants, the Great Plains Journey Was Often Boring, Anxious, and Terrifying. Here's Some Terrifying.

Annette Laing
Sep 16, 2023
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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-lutely boring it is, Boredom interspersed with fear and sorrow was the mid-19th century experience for many travelers, and cholera was part of that. Image:…

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