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Snowstorms Throttle Plains in 1863 Thanksgiving Season
Readings from the Weekly Kansas Tribune detail severe November and December snow across the Plains west of Fort Riley. Major Miller and Ira Olds report blizzards from Fort to Santa Fe, with drifts, wagons stuck, mules dying, and nearly two hundred miles of barren land between Larned and Santa Fe. Buffalo herds suffer, drivers hail rescues, and some wagon trains vanish in the storms.
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