Rotting Face
Subtitle: Smallpox and the American Indian
Publisher: Caxton Press
Published: October 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9780870044199
Subjects: Native American; Medical; History - General History; United States; Smallpox; Missouri River Valley; Infectious Diseases; History; 19th century; Diseases; Indians of North America
First sentence: It is doubtful the Europeans could have so easily defeated the native people of North and South America without the help of Old World diseases.
Description: Detailed history of the smallpox epidemic of 1837-1838 which killed over 20,000 Native Americans and altered their political and social structure forever.