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addiann - 2004-12-09 20:04:55 You're most welcome, Addiann. I loved reading it.. They had such lives of privation. Imagine having to go to Detroit to get a bit of meat for the table! I also imagined myself on the wagon almost submerged in the icy Huron, lifting my feet to avoid the water with my horses churning up bitterly cold spray on my clothes as they thrashed across...brrrrr. Tough people back then.* * * * * * * * * * * * addiann - 2004-12-09 21:11:24 Very tough. And even tougher horses I was thinking. Poor things. They thought that ice was solid ground and time after time it broke loose on them. Yet they kept going - swimming in icy water and pulling god knows how much weight......I'm a fiction reader, sometimes stories of this period, yet the real thing is much more powerful. * * * * * * * * * * * * addiann - 2004-12-09 21:13:09 Of course I think the folks were tough too. I'd have been whining way early on.* * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2004-12-09 21:25:47 Sometimes in these old pioneer stories I note tales of people walking from Ypsi/AA to Detroit and back for some tool or supply, and I think, whew, quite the perambulation, there.* * * * * * * * * * * * add your comment: |