The bacteria spread through water and food contaminated by human waste. ![]() It claimed many more along the trail corridor to Fort Laramie, Wyoming, and in American Indian encampments and villages, as well.Ĭholera is a bacterial infection that causes severe diarrhea and kills its victims through dehydration. The deadly disease claimed many lives before the victims even had a chance to start across the prairies of Kansas or Nebraska. In the early years of the California gold rush, cholera struck each spring at the thronging jumping-off towns along the Missouri River where thousands of gold seekers and Oregon-bound emigrants gathered to outfit. ![]() ![]() George Winslow Grave Marker, Fairbury Nebraska
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