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Meteorologist Studies The Long Winter

Posted on September 6, 2011 by Deb Houdek Rule

Barbara Mayes Boustead, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Omaha, Nebraska, has researched the accuracy of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s descriptions of the Long Winter, also known as “The Hard Winter”, and verified her accounts. The story was reported … Continue reading →

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The Long Winter

Posted on January 20, 2011 by Deb Houdek Rule

Laura Ingalls Wilder and The Long Winter When I lived out west for ten years or so, and it never snowed and summers were brown and winters were rainy, the book I most read and reread when I was homesick … Continue reading →

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