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“I Gave Him Barks and Saltpeter...”
Paul Russell Cutright | December 1963

Medicine was primitive and their knowledge of it limited, but in their hazardous journey to the Pacific, Lewis and Clark lost only one patient

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Anonymous | December 1956
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