Chickasaws Largely Escaped the Smallpox Epidemic
Dr. Daniel LittlefieldWe know the Chickasaw experience differed greatly from that of other tribes in a multitude of interesting ways. Here, Dr. Littlefield reports that hundreds of Choctaws were lost to cholera. He describes an inoculation process in Arkansas and Fort Coffee that seems to have prevented the spread of the disease and spared many Chickasaw lives.
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