[Sca-cooks] OT Laura IW was:Harvest times

[otsisto]

Umm... Laura Ingales Wilder did not "totally" write the books, her daughter
Rose did. Basically Laura wrote down her experience and Rose wrote it into a
book. I have been told that if Laura wrote it that it would have had some
"colourful language for many of the letters Laura wrote to Rose contained
swear words.
Lyse

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>If so, then why were the trains not able to get in or out?  Why were there
high
>snow drifts?  Why did the people nearly starve and/or freeze to death?  Her
>account doesn't jibe with what you are saying.  You should read her book,
"The Long
>Winter".

It is, in the end, a book, written by a human with all the
fallibilities of memory that humans are prone to, and all the
tendencies toward artistic licence that novelists are wont.

Perhaps Laura Ingalls Wilder wanted to combine plot elements
and character ages/situations from from '81 with the dramatic
tension of the hard winter in '86.

Perhaps she just misremembered the date.
It was written about 40 years after the fact, IIRC.
How many of us can recall which of the firt 10 winters of your
life was the hardest/coldest without an almanac?

More importantly, what did they cook for that hard winter?

Capt Elias
Dragonship Haven, East
(Stratford, CT, USA)
Apprentice in the House of Silverwing