The Tainted Gift: The Disease Method of Frontier Expansion (Hardcover)

Foreword by Series Editor Bruce Johansen Introduction 1. "Out of Our Special Regard for Them": The 1763 Gift of Smallpox 2. "The Land of Death": The Choctaw Removal into Cholera, 1832 3. "Death Put into Her Arm": Smallpox on the Upper Missouri, 1837 4. "How Many Times Are You Going to Talk?": The Accusationof Poisoning against Marcus Whitman Notes Bibliography Index