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The 1849 cholera outbreak in Jefferson City / Gary Elliott.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Elliott, Gary W., author.
Contributor:
Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Cholera--Missouri--Jefferson City--19th century.
Cholera.
River steamers--Missouri River--History--19th century.
River steamers.
Cholera--Missouri--Jefferson City--History--19th century.
History.
Jefferson City (Mo.)--History--19th century.
Jefferson City (Mo.).
Cole County (Mo.)--History--19th century.
Cole County (Mo.).
Missouri--Cole County.
Missouri--Jefferson City.
Missouri River.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:
140 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Other Title:
Eighteen hundred and forty-nine cholera outbreak in Jefferson City
Eighteen forty-nine cholera outbreak in Jefferson City
Place of Publication:
Charleston, SC : The History Press, 2021.
Summary:
An account of the cholera epidemic aboard the steamship James Monroe, which arrived in Jefferson City, Missouri, in May of 1849.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1. The Philadelphia Company of Latter-Day Saints
2. The Jeffersonville Forty-niners
3. The Steamship James Monroe
4. The Missouri River Journey and Death by the Cholera
5. Departure, Death and Adventure at Jefferson City
6. The Cholera
7. What Next?
8. Survivors
9. Deaths
10. Personal Accounts
11. Aftermath.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [127]-135) and index.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
ISBN:
9781467148054
1467148059
OCLC:
1200028176
Publisher Number:
99988835464

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