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Loring Miner was the doctor who provided evidence that the 1918 influenza epidemic most likely originated in Haskell County, Kansas. He was a capable country doctor who was on the front lines of the disease in early 1918 (it would not become a major pandemic until later that year, in the fall).
Loring Miner Quotes in The Great Influenza
The The Great Influenza quotes below are all either spoken by Loring Miner or refer to Loring Miner. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Haskell County, Kansas, lies west of Dodge City, where cattle drives up from Texas reached a railhead, and belongs geographically to an, in 1918, not far in time from, the truly Wild West. The landscape was and is flat and treeless, and the county was, literally, of the earth.
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Loring Miner Quotes in The Great Influenza
The The Great Influenza quotes below are all either spoken by Loring Miner or refer to Loring Miner. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 6
Quotes
Haskell County, Kansas, lies west of Dodge City, where cattle drives up from Texas reached a railhead, and belongs geographically to an, in 1918, not far in time from, the truly Wild West. The landscape was and is flat and treeless, and the county was, literally, of the earth.
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Page Number and Citation:
Explanation and Analysis:
