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Originally Posted by Bronko
Unreal film. On top of the incredible physical effects those winters must have had on him, the psychological impact must have been just as brutal.
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For sure, we are such whimps compared to the settlers and back woods men.
I have a copy of an 1854 letter from my Great Grandfather sent back home after he raised 10 kids in England, then came to Virginia after his wife died and brought a Daughter and Grandson to build a log cabin and start a farm at age 70!!!!
He describes the winter snows, depression, eating nothing but corn mash and his Grandson dying from exposure the first winter. He and his Daughter cleared 8 acres of land the first two years, no chainsaws!!, and died of exposure himself.
And we complain if we run out of hot water.