Epidemic in the Southwest, 1918-1919

Just over 100 years before the COVID-19 pandemic of the early 2020s spread across the world, the Spanish influenza epidemic had a devastating global impact. By the time World War I peace negotiations in Europe began in November 1918, every state in the U.S. had been invaded by the flu.

Originally published by Texas Western Press in 1984, Epidemic in the Southwest, 1918-1919 describes the Spanish influenza's impact on major cities in West Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. Schools, churches, the...