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Lee Williamson - Deadwood, South Dakota

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Uploaded by on Mar 4, 2010

While the news media continues to try to scare us shitless about the H1N1 Influenza virus, the present outbreak has nothing on what happened in 1918.

This is a story of how and why my grandfather, grandmother, and my aunt and uncle survived the influenza pandemic of 1918 - without Purell - and due entirely to the intercession of Deadwood, South Dakota's most notorious brothel owner: "Poker Alice".

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  • Cool, how interesting!

  • The plague kept returning every 4 - 10 years afterward. By 1420 the population of Europe was only about 1/3 what it had been 100 years before.

  • Killed more people than the 'hundred years' of the Black Death? Which outbreaks are you referring to as there were many, 1347-50 being the most deadly... and it resulted in millions of deaths.

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