Colorado’s reputation drew thousands of invalids seeking a health cure in primitive conditions.
Evidence
One night a beast (fox or skunk) rushed in at the open end of the cabin, and fled through the window, almost brushing my face, and on another, the head and three or four inches of the body of a snake were protruded through a chink of the floor close to me, to my extreme disgust. My mirror is the polished inside of my watchcase. … All have come for health, and most have found or are finding it, even if they have not better shelter than a wagon tilt or a blanket on sticks laid across four poles. 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, 59
Categorization
- XREF: Pairs with the reader’s broader interest in westward settlement and frontier medicine; recalls how climate reputations (like dry air for tuberculosis) shaped who emigrated. — connects to: Colorado was settled largely by invalids seeking a cure — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 60; Colorado’s climate attracted thousands of health seekers with chronic diseases. — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 138
- SHARE: For anyone interested in 19th-century health migration — the ‘camp cure’ drew consumptives and dyspeptics by the hundreds to Colorado.
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Broader Connections
- Colorado’s climate attracted thousands of health seekers with chronic diseases.
#corroborates(0.95) — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 138 - Colorado was settled largely by invalids seeking a cure
#corroborates(0.85) — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 60