Frontier Hygiene and Pancho Villa's Missing Head - True West Magazine
True West Magazine The miners who had meals and rented a room at this Palmetto, California, boardinghouse in the 1860s would have shared close quarters in their rooms, plus used common wash basins, towels, chamber pots, outdoor privies and possibly communal washrooms—which meant illnesses spread easily. What was frontier life like in the 1880s? Rena Miller Titusville, Florida What you see in Westerns is a sanitized version of life in the 19th century. Diseases like typhoid, cholera, diphtheria, tuberculosis and other contagions could wipe out entire families or even communities. Most of th...
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