Stormy Petrel and the Blizzard of 1871: part 5

The hours passed in white pristine silence as she waited for help. And then, at last, she heard what her heart had so longed to hear. It was the gleefully shouting voices of her husband and brothers. They had spied her red scarf fluttering in the wintery breeze.

In a short time, in their joy of knowing that Stormy was still alive, the men broke through the heavy drift. In an even shorter time they had their beloved Stormy clutched in their arms and were thanking God for finding her alive.

For more information, on the Internet, about snowstorms, please see:

The Year of the Big Snow 1913-14 http://library.ci.fort-collins.co.us/loc...

Famous Minnesota Winter Storms http://climate.umn.edu/doc/historical/wi...

Railroad History of Central Wisconsin: Snow Storm http://www.pchswi.org/RRWEB/misc_article...

Some Other Notable Snowstorms and Blizzards http://nsidc.org/snow/blizzard/storms.ht... It begins with February and March 1717 and goes through January of 1996.

A Closer Look at One Blizzard: The Plains Blizzard of 17-18 January 1996 http://nsidc.org/snow/blizzard/plains.ht...

Also by Mary Trotter Kion at Suite 101:

Rails Across a Nation: A Suite 101 e-Book by Mary Trotter Kion. http://www.north46.com/rails.html This is the adventure of the Transcendental Railroad that was built across the vast United States.

Source

Stratton, Joanna L. Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1981.

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