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

[Dianne & Greg Stucki]

>
> 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?

Googling reveals that De Smet South Dakota was, indeed, hit by a severe 
blizzard that dumped seven inches of snow on October 15 1880, the earliest 
blizzard ever recorded in that area.

As I said, that was the year she met her husband to be, Almanzo, and the 
weather figured largely in the beginning of their relationship.

Certainly she didn't remember every detail, but most of the basic facts are 
true.

Laurensa
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