| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 33.4

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Rotting Face: Smallpox and the American Indian. By R. G. Robertson. (Caldwell, ID: Caxton Press, 2001. xvii+329 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95.)

The destruction of Indian culture and removal of Native peoples to reservations has long been depicted in movies, television, and popular literature as the result of armed conflict with whites. But, in truth, other factors were of equal or greater importance. Foremost among these were European diseases (to which the natives had no natural resistance) and, on the plains, the destruction of the bison herds upon which the tribes were dependent for food, shelter, clothing, and other necessities of life. . . .

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