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On today’s episode, the History Guy tells two stories about bitter cold in the gilded age. First he tells the story of the “long winter” of 1880-81, which bombarded the United States with storm after storm. Then he tells the story of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition, a scientific expedition by the United States to the polar region, which went horribly wrong.
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Nice! A Good morning listen with my good morning coffee 🙂
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You sure can tell that your son is your son! Y'all sound so much alike! 😄
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From very NW Montana, we pray for a deep snow pack , makes fire season shorter 🤠. My distant relatives moved from Minnesota to Oregon in 1880, maybe the snow chased them out, they were farmers. I lived in North Pole Alaska in 91 and Trinidad Colorado in 97, both really heavy snow and cold years and your right, we mostly had power and the roads were cleared in a couple days, they did close the hwy from Eilson Air force base to to just north of Anchorage for most of the winter. But they flew in supplies to the different communitys
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I moved from New York to NC 20 years ago and the winters in NC are extremely mild compared to the North East but there was always at least a dusting. This was the first year in my life that I haven't seen a single snow flake.
No matter what you have experienced, one hundred miles up is worse. This universe really really wants to stop you.
This is incredible history. I have one comment to make though…a correction. Laura Ingalls married Almanzo Wilder. Eliza Jane Wilder is the sister of Almanzo making her the sister-in-law of Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane's aunt. At the 6:04 point, there was a mention of Eliza Jane Wilder (Thayer Gordon) being Laura's aunt. Unless there is some other info that I don't know – I believe I am correct. Love your channel!
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We certainly have so much more…yet this administration refused to help Texas. Like now… with this train derailment of toxic fluids in Palestine, Ohio.
They WON'T respond.
People pulled together then. Some hve responded with clean water, God bless them !
If anyone is interested and haven't read it, Admiral Richard E. Byrd's book "Alone" is about his time at an Antarctic outpost, in 1934, where he spent nearly half a year alone, so not just dealing with living in a very hostile environment, but how to remain sane when his only contact with other people was by radio! Today, an explorer could do something similar, yet it would never be the same, with communications, transportation and our knowledge of the world all being so far advanced compared to then.
Accustom yourself to hardship. For by doing so, adversity has but a little sting.
There is a recent winter with a similar storm to one of those in 1880-81. The first storm of the winter of 2007-08 came in November, and dumped a whole winter's worth of snow in about 8 hours here in Ottawa. A couple of hours into Quebec it was worse. They were losing 2-story houses in the drifts. But we only got one storm like that in that winter, not storms like that one after the other for the whole winter.
The Mars Society and the combined SETI and Mars Institute both decided to build an arctic research station because there's an impact crater on Devon Island that's one of the better approximations of the surface on Mars on Earth. Devon Island is a large island immediately south of Ellesmere Island, where Lady Franklin Bay is located. No attempt to build overwintering facilities was attempted at either station. (The reason is that the summer is when the conditions most closely match the conditions on the parts of Mars that are intended to be the targets of early manned exploration, near the Martian equator. The winters are much harsher in the subarctic than things ever get on the Martian equator.)