“One thing the army didn’t do very often was swoop in to deflect Indian attacks on wagon trains of settlers—there weren’t that many such assaults. Between 1842 and 1859, about thirty thousand Western emigrants died while en route by wagon… — Jeff Guinn Copy Share Image
“Ninety percent would arrive safely. According to historians, a best guess is that about one percent, 1,000 of the immigrants, were killed by Indians, which consigns the remaining 9,000 fatalities to accident and disease.” — Rod Collins Copy Share Image
