When we think of pioneers on the Allegheny frontier, and how it was that they passed the long winter months, our imaginations may have been influenced by having seen too many old-fashioned paintings of frontier life, such as the famous one by Eastman Johnson showing a young Abe Lincoln reading by firelight, or too [...]
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Winter on the frontier: what they lived in
Posted in Pringle brothers, Virginia frontier, frontier winter, half-face shelter, hollow tree on February 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Winter on the Virginia frontier
Posted in Greg Bray, frontier winter on January 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The winter here on the Monongahela in recent weeks has been uncommonly hard, with temperatures remaining in the teens and even the single digits day after day, and the snow accumulating without melting. Compared with more northern regions, we have had it fairly easy, but around here it has been colder than what we [...]
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