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.

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:…