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You Wake With Lice on Your Neck and Mosquitoes Over the Oxen. Now Keep the Small Enemies From Eating Your Family Alive.
Published 2 weeks, 5 days ago
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You wake because something is crawling across the back of your neck, and your fingers come away with two gray lice crushed between them, warm from your own skin. It is late May, 1848, on the Platte somewhere east of Fort Laramie, and the wagon train has been moving for six weeks without a real […]