Camp Cody, New Mexico
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Camp Cody (N.M.)place
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a.k.a. Camp Cody, Deming New Mexico
Influenza epidemic of 1918event
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a.k.a. 1918 flu pandemic
34th 'Sandstorm' Infantry Divisionthing
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a.k.a. 34th Infantry Division
97th Divisionorg
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Sisters of the Holy Crossorg
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Fredrick Emil Rescheperson
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Codyvilleplace
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Wikipedia article on Camp Cody, a US Army training camp near Deming, NM, active 1916-1919. Covers the camp's construction during summer 1917 with 120 mess houses and 1,200 bathhouses; 30,000 troops of the 34th "Sandstorm" Infantry Division from Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, and the Dakotas; the camp originally named Camp Brooks during the Mexican Border War, then Camp Deming, then renamed Camp Cody for Buffalo Bill Cody; the 97th Division assembling there in October 1918; the influenza epidemic of 1918 killing 426 soldiers (194 in November alone); the camp closing in 1919; conversion to a tuberculosis sanitarium for veterans operated by the Sisters of the Holy Cross; the facility burning down in 1939; the Codyville entertainment district outside the camp; details of soldier life, horse remount station, and the Fredrick Emil Resche controversy.