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people had asked for their help in finding a place of shelter from some of the pressures they were under. The
Bridges family provided them with areas on their estancias where they could live in semi-traditional ways. Lucas Bridges became the main informant for almost every traveler, national explorer
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Bridges witnessed the effects of change as immigrants from
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Europeans. The book was well reviewed, Madaline W. Nichols describing it as "fascinating" and "of basic ethnological importance".
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caused high fatality rates. Outbreaks in 1884 (following a visit by three
Argentine Navy ships), 1924 and 1929 became fatal
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