Artifact
Steamboat St. Peters
American Fur Company steamboat that carried smallpox up the Missouri River in 1837.
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- Smallpox at Fort Clark, 1837 docked at Fort Clark on 19 June 1837 carrying passengers infected with smallpox Scholarship & press 1
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Fort Clark State Historic Site: history, State Historical Society of North Dakota.
Scholarship & press
On June 19, 1837, the steamboat St. Peters docked at Fort Clark carrying passengers infected with smallpox. Soon the disease swept through the Mandan village, killing about 90 percent of the inhabitants.
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