Frontier Medicine at Fort Davis FOSC Audience: Adults and children

Audience: Adults and children

The blocks come in a box featuring educational information about tarantulas

and they’re often driving the same type of vehicle

This super-soft T-shirt features a geometric design inspired by the park’s unique landscape and wildlife

Families walking together in line

Frontier Medicine at Fort Davis FOSC Audience: Adults and childrenFrom a headless burial to cocaine toothache drops, the true stories hidden in the Wild West's medical records are a match for its tallest tales. In the 19th century, when dying young was a fact of life, a routine bout of diarrhea could be fatal. No one had heard of viruses or bacteria, but they killed more soldiers on the frontier than raids. Physicians dispensed whiskey for TB, mercury for VD, and arsenic for indigestion. Baseball injuries were