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References

Yellow Fever
 

1   Ruffin, Tom. “The year of the great epidemic.” Shreveport Magazine. Aug. 1973. 34. Louisiana State University
     in Shreveport Noel Memorial Library, Archives and Special Collections. VF: Yellow Fever.

2   Ruffin; Thomson, Bailey and Patricia L. Meador. Shreveport: A Photographic Remembrance, 1873-1949. Baton
     Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987. 14.; Carrigan, Jo Ann. The Saffron Scourge: A History of
     Yellow Fever in Louisiana, 1796-1905. Lafayette: Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern
     Louisiana, 1994. 109.

3   Ruffin.

4   Carrigan.

5   Dubos, René, Henry Margenau, and C. P. Snow, eds. Life Science Library: Health and Disease. New York: Time
     Life Books, 1965. 35.

6   Ibid.

7   Carrigan.

8   Carruth, Viola. Caddo: 1,000. Shreveport: Shreveport Magazine, 1971. 92-93.

9   Carrigan, 228.

10 Carrigan, 227.

11 Ruffin, 54; Westerfield, David. “Epidemic killed hundreds.” Shreveport Times. 9 Oct. 1992. 1-A. Louisiana
    State University in Shreveport Noel Memorial Library, Archives and Special Collections. VF: Yellow Fever.

12 Carrigan, 108.

13 Miciotto, R. J. “Shreveport’s first major health crisis: the yellow fever epidemic of 1873.” North Louisiana
    Historical Association Journal. 4.4 Summer 1973. 113.

14 Smith, Dr. Henry. “Report of the yellow fever epidemic of 1873, Shreveport, Louisiana.” Louisiana Equitable Life
    Insurance Company. New Orleans: L. Graham and Company, 1874. 2. Louisiana State University in Shreveport
    Noel Memorial Library, Archives and Special Collections. VF: Yellow Fever.

15 Ruffin, 34; Vals-Denuzière, Jacqueline P. The Homes of the Planters. Baton Rouge: Claitor’s Publishing Division,
    1984.

16 “Yellow fever.” Funk and Wagnalls New Encyclopedia. 1983 ed.

17 Ruffin; Smith, 5.

18 Smith.

19 Carrigan, 8.

20 Ruffin.

21 Carrigan.

22 Ruffin.

23 Smith, 6.

24 Ruffin.

25 Smith, 5.

26 “Yellow Fever.”

27 Ruffin, 52.

28 Thompson, Alan S. “Transportation: Riverboats and Railroads of Shreveport.” Glimpses of Shreveport. Ann M.
    McLaurin, ed. Natchitoches: Northwestern State University Press, 1985. 54-55.

29 Carruth, 93.

30 Carrigen, 107.

31 Honley, Steve Alan. “A history of the 1873 yellow fever epidemic in Shreveport, Louisiana.” North Louisiana
    Historical Association Journal. 13.2,3. 93.

32 Ibid.

33 Carruth; Carrigan.

34 Carrigan, 106.

35 Thomson, Meador.

36 Carruth, 94.

37 Honley.

38 Ruffin.

39 Thomson and Meador.

40 Miciotto, 116.

41 Westerfield.

42 Carrigan, 109.

43 Carruth, 93; Burrows, Charlotte. “On a mission of mercy, he died a martyr.” Shreveport Times. 17 June 1987.
    17. Louisiana State University in Shreveport Noel Memorial Library, Archives and Special Collections. VF: Yellow
    Fever.

44 Hearn-O’Pry, Maude. Chronicles of Shreveport and Caddo Parish. Shreveport: Journal Printing Co., 1928. Rpt.
    1978. 178.

45 Wolter, Beverly. “Red River Raft.” Sunday Advocate. 23 Dec. 1951. 4. Louisiana State University in Shreveport
    Noel Memorial Library, Archives and Special Collections. VF: Red River Raft; Plummer, Marguerite. Pioneer
    Heritage Center, Louisiana State University of Shreveport.

46 Thomson, Bailey, ed. Historic Shreveport. Shreveport: Shreveport Journal, 1980. 20.

47 Carruth, 94; Martin, Margaret. “5 priests, 2 nuns among 750 lost in 1873 epidemic.” Shreveport Times. 28 Oct.
    1973. 28-E. Louisiana State University in Shreveport Noel Memorial Library, Archives and Special Collections.
    VF: Yellow Fever.

48 Martin.

49 Ruffin.

50 Thomson, Meador.

51 Ruffin, 54.

52 Ibid.

53 Prime, John Andrew. “Historic cemetery to gain plaque marking the past.” Shreveport Times. 21 Nov. 1996.
    5-B. Louisiana State University in Shreveport Noel Memorial Library, Archives and Special Collections. VF: 
    Greenwood Cemetery.

54 “Yellow Fever.”

55 Carrigan, 283-287.

56 Grolier, Inc. “The Germ Theory of Disease.” The Book of Popular Science. Vol. 7. Grolier, Inc., 1971. 384.

57 “Yellow Fever.”

 

 



                                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                                                            
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