Many brave souls headed West during the 1800's, often by wagon train. They fought weather, disease, starvation, hostile folks of all types, and potentially deadly injuries. Medicine was crude, basically non-existent, and many died along the way.
Check out my latest Q&A on the Suspense Magazine Blog:
Could Death From Bleeding Be Delayed For Several Days After a Frontier Wagon Wheel Accident?Read the answer and listen to the expanded audio information here:
http://suspensemagazine.com/blog2/2017/07/01/could-death-from-bleeding-be-delayed-for-several-days-after-a-frontier-wagon-wheel-accident/This was one of the many clever questions included in my first Q&A book- MURDER & MAYHEM