Frontier Log Cabins That Defied the Cold At American Midwest

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The winter of 1843 struck the upper Mississippi Valley with a cold so severe that settlers recorded temperatures 30 degrees below what their almanacs predicted. In a single room cabin near Fort Snelling, Minnesota, a family woke to find frost coating the inside walls. The fire had burned low overnight. Outside, the thermometer read 42° below 0 F. T... Read More