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1837–1838 smallpox epidemic
1837 CE · United States, North America · Disaster
Between 1836 and 1840, smallpox became widespread across the Great Plains. The epidemic reached its height following the spring of 1837, when an American Fur Company steamboat, the SS St. Peter's, carried infected people and supplies up the Missouri River in the Midwestern United States.
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