Page Comparison - Canyon Creek Schoolhouse Laboratory 100th Anniversary RMSF basics (v.28 vs v.29)

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In 1915, Dr. Ralph Parker moved to Montana to continue his studies on RMSF, which he had started as an entomology student under Dr. Robert Cooley. He also continued to work on finding ways to control the tick population and on the exact transmission process of RMSF.

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Dr. Ralph Parker and his wife Adah N. Parker conducted tick research during their honeymoon in Powderville, Montana, in 1916. She helped collect the ticks from the animals that he hunted.

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Image: Rocky Mountain Laboratories, 338

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Despite the best control efforts they could devise, there was a serious outbreak of a very deadly strain of RMSF in the Bitterroot Valley in the early 1920s. The State of Montana asked the U.S. Public Health Service to send investigators to help Dr. Ralph Parker. Dr. Roscoe Spencer—a physician with bacteriological training—was the investigator who was sent. The Montana Board of Entomology also found larger quarters for the laboratory at the old Canyon Creek Schoolhouse.

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The Victor, Montana labs were built of wood in a small grove of trees and surrounded by a fence Image Modified

From 1919–1920, Dr. Ralph Parker used this woodshed as his laboratory in Victor, Montana, in the Bitterroot Valley, which was having a serious RMSF outbreak. When Parker moved his woodshed laboratory to the new Canyon Creek Schoolhouse Laboratory in 1921, the move only took one small truckload driven by J. H. Owings, who was paid $5.

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Image: Office of NIH History and Stetten Museum, 1531

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