When the U.S. West was a Place to Find Health
By Alex Jay Kimmelman | December 15th, 2009 | Category: Issue 6, Lead Story | No Comments »When Josiah Gregg and a company headed southwest on the Santa Fe trail in 1831, the young man was confined to lie prone in the bed of a Dearborn wagon. He suffered from chronic dyspepsia and tuberculosis, and western travel was proscribed for his condition. This therapy proved to be highly successful. [...]
