The 1837 Great Plains smallpox epidemic was believed to have begun in the spring of 1837 when a deckhand became ill aboard an American Fur Company steamboat, the S.S. St. Peter.
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Pus from Halsey's skin eruptions was used to inoculate approximately thirty Native American women and several white men living in or around the fort.
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