51�Թ�

“I know little about this town, but I already have seen and heard enough of the Republic to cool my Texas fever,” he wrote his bishop.

To keep the "wintered" ones from catching the "Texas fever," Mr. Moore put them all on the Plains, leaving the new arrivals on the north side of the river.

The Indian was not the only risk—there was the prairie fire, the Texas fever, and numerous other dangers confronting one at every step.

Cattle, for instance, are immune to typhoid and yellow fever, while man shows high resistance to rinderpest and Texas fever; both, however, are susceptible to tuberculosis, to which goats are immune.

Spleen of an acute, fatal case of Texas fever.