Happy New Year! Jen took a break from mapping over the holidays and instead played the game Oregon Trail. This episode also includes a discussion of illnesses pioneers suffered and a new source for information about the Shackelfords' journey!

Show links:

•    Poll: Next step in mapping pioneer trails
•    Covered Wagon Women series, University of Oklahoma Press
•    Covered Wagon Women, Volume 9. Kindle Edition
•    Greene County Iowa Historical Society, The killer diseases of pioneer times.
•    Oregon Trail Center, Historical Trails
•    NPS Scotts Bluff, Death and Danger Along the Trails
•    Mapping disease, John Snow and Cholera, Royal College of Surgeons of England
•    The Oregon Trail on Internet Archive
•    Days On The Road, Crossing the Plains in 1865 by Sarah Raymond Herndon on Google Books

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