| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.1

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The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence: Introduced Infectious Diseases and Population Decline among Northwest Coast Indians, 1774–1874. By Robert Boyd. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999. xvi, 403 pp. $50.00, ISBN 0-295-97837-6.)

The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence is a detailed ethnohistorical account of the disease frontier of the Northwest Coast culture area. By carefully gleaning the published and archival documents, Robert Boyd has produced the most detailed history of the impact of European-introduced diseases on the Native peoples of the Northwest. This book began as Boyd's doctoral dissertation, a work that has been widely used by historians and anthropologists specializing in the Northwest. Boyd's publications on Native Northwest Coast population and disease are numerous, and this compilation is a nice addition to the collection. It is a sad and gruesome story, but one that needs to be told. . . .

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