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A different epidemic: 100 years ago, a virus raged through Nevada, and it wasn t Spanish Flu
Jenny Kane, Reno Gazette Journal
© Courtesy of the Nevada Historical Society
Pyramid Lake Dude Ranch, Sutcliffe, 1936. AJ Olds owned the Pyramid Lake Dude Ranch from 1926-1931. It does not appear to be the same ranch the Olds lived on during the rabies epidemic, but was in the same area.
A bawling bovine, mad with a virus sweeping the West, stood between Sarah Olds’ children and the house.
For two hours the children had been stranded on a haystack on the family s Nevada ranch, unable to get home as the rabid cow pawed and raged outside the house. It was starting to get cold, and the children pleaded with their mother to let them sprint for the house as the sun dipped low in the sky. ....

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