[Hot Tabasco]

The ONLY weapon of mass distruction in those days were biological weapons, which were used by the fur traders (smallpox laden trade blankets).

I always heard that and often wondered why the traders themselves didn't contract the disease since it was pre-vaccination days. Or did they and we just weren't told about it? And if we weren't then why weren't we?

The CDC was non-existant back then and there was very little known about infectious diseases so it would not surprise me in the least to find out that the old stories about "smallpox laden blankents" are nothing but history re-written to cast false aspersions on the white people.........

[btcusn]

I always heard that and often wondered why the traders themselves didn't contract the disease since it was pre-vaccination days. Or did they and we just weren't told about it? And if we weren't then why weren't we?


You may well be correct, but infectious diseases were instrumental in the devastation of the Indian tribes