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<P><FONT color=#000000><FONT size=2><FONT face=arial,sans-serif>Thanks for this information. Do you know if there is going to be any discussion of "Meek's Cutoff" at the conference? After seeing the interesting film recently, I have been reading what I can find on the subject. I have read that one of the terrible causes of many deaths on this trail was the bad water when good could not be located in the desert before they reached The Dalles. Some of the bad water was alkaline and made people sick, especially the old and the very young. As provisions were decreasing, some of the people used a white substance they found that they thought could be a substitute for baking soda in their bread. Does anyone here know more about that?</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P><FONT color=#000000><FONT size=2><FONT face=arial,sans-serif>Thank, </FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px">-----Original Message----- <BR>From: Glen Jones <GLENKC7MBM@COMCAST.NET><BR>Sent: Jul 28, 2011 7:48 PM <BR>To: or-roots mail list <OR-ROOTS@LISTSMART.OSL.STATE.OR.US><BR>Subject: Re: [or-roots] Migration and epidemics <BR><BR><ZZZHTML><ZZZHEAD>
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<P><SPAN>Disease and accidents were the cause of the majority of deaths on the Oregon and California Trails.</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN>Incidently the 2013 Oregon California Trails National Convention will be in Oregon City and planning</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN>is currently underway, I am on the Communications and Publicity Committee.</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN>Glen Jones Portland<BR><BR><SPAN name="x"></SPAN><SPAN name="x"></SPAN><BR></SPAN><BR></P>
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<P><B>From: </B>"Leslie Chapman" <opera_70@yahoo.com><BR><B>To: </B>"or-roots mail list" <or-roots@listsmart.osl.state.or.us><BR><B>Sent: </B>Thursday, July 28, 2011 7:22:38 PM<BR><B>Subject: </B>Re: [or-roots] Migration and epidemics<BR><BR></P>
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<TD vAlign=top><FONT class=Apple-style-span size=2 face=arial>I had understood that the disease outbreaks along the trail were mostly related to the large numbers of people and tendencies to all camp in certain locations with poor attention to sanitation.</FONT>
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<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">I agree that web site is amazing though, Here is a link to a document about someone dear to us here in Oregon;</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><A href="http://brianaltonenmph.com/6-medical-anthropology/charles-eastman/" target=_blank>http://brianaltonenmph.com/6-medical-anthropology/charles-eastman/</A></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT class=Apple-style-span size=2 face=arial>I was attracted to the letter because I thought it might be connected to some Eastman</FONT><FONT class=Apple-style-span size=2 face=arial> letters connected to my Wisner family, but it is about Sacajawea and her descendants etc. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT class=Apple-style-span size=2 face=arial>Bet you all could spend hours at that web site.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT class=Apple-style-span size=2 face=arial>Les C<BR></FONT><BR><FONT class=Apple-style-span size=2 face=arial>--- On </FONT><B style="FONT-FAMILY: arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Thu, 7/28/11, Kith-n-Kin <I><Kith-n-Kin@cox.net></I></B><FONT class=Apple-style-span size=2 face=arial> wrote:</FONT>
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<P class=yiv1560747238MsoNormal>Ever wonder why and how some of our ancestors and other relatives died “along the trail” or shortly after arriving at their destination?</P>
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<P class=yiv1560747238MsoNormal>Here is a very interesting piece of work on the subject.</P>
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<P class=yiv1560747238MsoNormal>After you get to the site, search for “<EM><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'; COLOR: #29303b" lang=EN>Historical Epidemiology” </SPAN></B></EM><EM><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'; COLOR: #29303b" lang=EN>as the piece is more than half way down the page.</SPAN></EM></P>
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<P class=yiv1560747238MsoNormal><A href="http://brianaltonenmph.com/biostatistics/risk-management/" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://brianaltonenmph.com/biostatistics/risk-management/</A> </P>
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<P class=yiv1560747238MsoNormal>Pat</P>
<P class=yiv1560747238MsoNormal>In Tucson</P></DIV></DIV>
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