The Tainted Gift The Disease Method of Frontier Expansion

For the first time, an accomplished scholar offers a painstakingly researched examination of the United States' involvement in deliberate disease spreading among native peoples in the military conquest of the West. * Chapters focusing on four charges of deliberate disease spreading among Native American peoples * An extraordinary collection of primary and oral sources, including much that has only recently become available, that helps provide a clearer picture of the Federal campaigns for control of Western territories