In Laura Ingels-Wilder's series of books "The Little House on the Prairie"


She described living through this 1911 freeze in Nebraska . Was one of her many fascinating stories telling a true historical

Background of an American family in "the good old days".

Her writings rival Mark TwainMargaret writes:

Her mother had a cousin living in Niagara Falls that year. She told the family

That she and her neighbors woke up in the night feeling something was wrong. It took a while but they finally realized that it was the lack of noise. They had

All become so used to the roar of the falls that the silence was unusual enough

to alert their senses. Of course at that time nearly all the houses were near the

Falls. Amazing pictures! Almost 100 years old. Can you imagine walking on
Niagara Falls?
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