Colorado’s climate attracted thousands of health seekers with chronic diseases.
Evidence
The climate of Colorado is considered the finest in North America, and consumptives, asthmatics, dyspeptics, and sufferers from nervous diseases, are here in hundreds and thousands, either trying the “camp cure” for three or four months, or settling here permanently. — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 138
Categorization
- SEED: The ‘camp cure’ as a health frontier angles toward an article about how the natural world was sold as medicine in the American West before sanitariums.
- XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in daily life of ladies in the frontier West and how landscapes were read as healing. — connects to: Colorado’s reputation drew thousands of invalids seeking a health cure in primitive conditions. — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 59; Colorado’s high dry climate allowed year-round outdoor living — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 60; Colorado was settled largely by invalids seeking a cure — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 60
Related
- Colorado’s reputation drew thousands of invalids seeking a health cure in primitive conditions. (similarity 0.94)
- Colorado was settled largely by invalids seeking a cure (similarity 0.92)
- Colorado’s high dry climate allowed year-round outdoor living (similarity 0.87)
- Settlers lured to Colorado by climate promises met ruin (similarity 0.84)
- Colorado’s high, dry, cloudless climate allows outdoor sleeping half the year. (similarity 0.82)
- Consumption-stricken settlers were restored to health by frontier life (similarity 0.80)