Laura’s Corner

January 1881 and the true start of the hard winter

By Cindy Wilson
Posted 1/18/23

In “The Long Winter,” Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote of the deprivations experienced by the people of De Smet during the Hard Winter of 1880-81, when trains could not reach the new town. Settlers …

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