[Sca-cooks] Harvest times

[Huette von Ahrens]

--- Terry Decker <t.d.decker at worldnet.att.net> wrote:


> If memory serves, 1881 was a relatively mild winter.  The really nasty one 
> was "The Big Die of '86, that essentially killed the free range cattle 
> industry.  Some of the Worst blizzards on record are those of 1885-86 and 
> 1886-87.
> 
> Bear

I guess that depends on where you were that year.  Laura Ingalls Wilder was in
De Smet South Dakota, which she wrote about in her book The Long Winter, where
snows and blizzards started in October 1880 and didn't stop until May 1881.

Huette, who grew up with those books...

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