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Originally Posted by t walgamuth
All dubious improvments.
The white man brought diseases that the red men were extremely susceptable to. By the time the white men moved west to inhabit the interior in quantities the population of the red men was reduced by as much as 80% by some estimates by disease.....that was before we started shooting them and the buffalo that they depended on.
Actually I think the average life was possibly more like 37.
Tom W
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Vice your versas, too. Death and disease and noxious pests have traveled across the Atlantic from West to East, too.
Then there's the world famous Black Death that came from China across Asia to Europe and is endemic in the SW USA.
Tracing diseases reveals greater complexity than one might suspect at first glance.
B