Gleanings from H-West

A part of H-Net, an international initiative sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, H-West assists people who desire to go on-line to seek, post, and trade information related to the humanities. Gail Fiorini-Jenner I have tracked western poison stories and suspect that most deaths attributed to "bad water" had more to do with cholera or native plants than water poisoned, deliberately or otherwise. For an extended treatment of scurvy as part of the gold rush experience, written in a popular, lightly documented style, see George W. Groh, Gold Fever: Being a True Account, Both Horrifying and Hilarious, of the Art of Healing (socalled) during the California Gold Rush (New York, 66).