Yellow Fever on Galveston Island

by Jan Johnson

Book Overview

Jan Johnson provides a definitive account of Galveston's fight against outbreaks of Yellow Fever, which transformed an island paradise into the City of Dreadful Death.

In the summer of Galveston's founding year, a mysterious malady accompanied by black vomit descended upon the inhabitants. Names for the devastating plague came quick and fast as the body count rose. Saffron Scourge. Bronze John. Yellow Jack. Yellow Fever. The disease's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1467146552
• ISBN13: 9781467146555
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"