Travel Adventures
I had a trip in the fall of 1881 from Crystal City to old Desford and
back, and had dinner and supper in one meal at Joe McKibbon’s, Badger
Creek. All the country was burnt black, not a blade of grass to be seen
A prairie fire had swept the country, starting about where the town of
Melita is now, and extended to Cartwright before it was brought under
control. Alex Rankin
A man by the name of Hill, a Hudson Bay trader, was out five days in a
blizzard his legs were badly frozen to the knees, and his arms to the
elbows. He crawled from Wood Lake to Wakopa, a distance of five miles.
The Indians found him and took care of him. They daubed the frozen
parts with a knife before thawing, so that the congealed blood would
ooze out in thawing, the parts healing perfectly.
Alex Rankin
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