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Excerpt from The Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever Tick: With Special Reference to the Problem of Its Control in the Bitter Root Valley in Montana For many years a disease of human beings, known as spotted fever has been known to occur in certain localities in the Rocky Mountain region of the United States. In fact the evidence is rather conclu sive that the disease existed before the settlement of the country by white men. At. Any rate. Old residents Of the Bitter Root Valley in Montana have informed us that the first white settlers were warned by the Indians of the danger of contracting a very serious disease if they visited certain localities. From what has been learned in recent years it is evident that these dangerous localities are the very ones in which spotted fever is now most prevalent. The States in which the disease occurs most. Frequently are Mon tana and Idaho. There is no doubt, however that it occurs in at least portions of other States, such as Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, and Colorado. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.