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Author:

Keith, Jeanette.

Title:

Fever season : the story of a terrifying epidemic and the people who saved a city / Jeanette Keith.

Edition:

1st U.S. ed.

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Press,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

261 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Yellow fever--Memphis--Memphis--History--19th century.
Epidemics--History--Memphis--Memphis--History--19th century.
Medical personnel--Memphis--Memphis--Biography.
Journalists--Memphis--Memphis--Biography.
Memphis (Tenn.)--Biography.
Memphis (Tenn.)--History--19th century.
Memphis (Tenn.)--Social conditions--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Bluff City Panorama -- Yellow Jack -- Siege -- The Destroying Angel -- The Arithmetic of Sorrow -- A Contagion of Kindness -- Lost Graves -- After the Fever -- Epilogue.

Summary:

An account of the 1878 yellow fever epidemic documents how it killed more than 18,000 people in the American South, tracing its particularly catastrophic impact in Memphis, Tennessee, while noting the heroic efforts of people who remained behind to help.

ISBN:

1608192229 (hbk.)
9781608192229 (hbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)769989535

LCCN:

2012010176

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)