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Date Posted: 16:39:00 07/15/05 Fri
Author: Michelle
Subject: Re: The Children's Blizzard
In reply to: LisaE 's message, "Re: The Children's Blizzard" on 15:35:50 07/14/05 Thu

I recently got this book through inter-library loan. (I hadn't heard about it before this site and fronteir girl girl) I thought it was relly good, though I also skimmed thru the technical wether things. Some of the stories were so sand with the immigrants coing over and I don't know how some of those people survived like they did.

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[> [> Re: The Children's Blizzard -- Ann, 21:50:53 07/20/05 Wed

I just got back from vacation, and am getting caught up with the board. :) I felt so bad for the immigrants. They came to America and settled in that Dakota territory with such high hopes and so many of them ended up leaving because they just couldn't make a go of it with the blizzards in the winter and dry weather in the summer.

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[> [> [> Ann or anyone interested.small Frontier house update -- LisaE, 22:21:17 07/28/05 Thu

I was reading on the "Frontier girl" board a post by a lady who went to DeSmet recently (it's in her title post). Anyways she mentions how she talked to two of the lady's who worked on the production of the show and it mentions a teeny tiny update on the cast members. FYI.

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[> [> [> [> Omigosh! -- Ann, 15:14:52 07/29/05 Fri

Thanks for posting that, Lisa! I went to the other board and checked it out, and I'm not surprised about the Glenns being divorced (that was in the works by the follow-up at the end of the show, I think), but I'm surprised if the rumor about the Clunes is true. They seemed like a couple on the same wave-length anyway. If it's true about the surfer, I think Adrienne may end up disappointed, as I'd guess it wouldn't last. Maybe she had too much time on her hands after the experience on Frontier House.
The Glenn's daughter (the one now considering colleges) and the Clune cousin seemed to be the two who really got the most out of their Frontier House time.

I've wondered if it wasn't almost as difficult for some of the settlers (or would-be settlers) back then as it was for the modern-day families to try to create a home on the frontier. I bet a lot of folks back then didn't really know anything about farming, plowing, etc either, and it was the only ones who did or the really stubborn ones who made it.

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