Humbled by the Devastator

By Carol Ann Taylor

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1934248126
• ISBN13: 9781934248126
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Mill City Press, Inc.
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Comprehensive Story of Dakoton's Plight during Winter of 1996-97

This is a well-written story of what the farmers and ranchers of North and South Dakota went through in their devastating loss of half a million cattle during the unbelievable winter blizzards that started in October of '96 and did not let up until May of '97. Being a Montanan native and having experienced snowstorms all my life (indeed, we just had a snowstorm two days ago and it's June), I related to this and could not imagine how the people survived and kept going. Carol includes many stories from many of the ranchers and the laborers (snowplowers, etc.) of how they felt and what they thought. This is a hardscrabble tale of tenacity that keeps people going despite watching the heartbreak of their cattle dying every day. Not only is it an economic loss, but it is an emotional loss, for the ranchers feel they have shirked their duties in caring for their livestock. Page after page, Carol describes with great detail what happened. Certainly, all who live in the northern states should read it but those outside should read it out of interest in the farming and ranching roles of life that sustain us all and put meat on our table. The Dakotans were heroic and Carol's writing of their anquished ordeal was superb.