We decided to take the southern route and we had
snow piled up on the car until we got to Oklahoma, where everyone
wondered where we had come from.
We made another trip to Utah a few years later and went via the
northern route. I am unable to remember exactly which events occurred
on which trip so will relate them as I recall them, without much
regard to the year.
The first trip during the winter was the year they had the hay lift
for the farm animals due to the severe winter weather. One morning
the temperature was 45 degrees below zero with so much frost in the
air that you couldn't see the mountains to the east. One week it only
got up to 14 below, but the cold was more bearable as the air is so
dry. Mrs. Clark used to go out and hang up the washing in a short
sleeved dress when it was down to 10 degrees above zero. The farmer
who was a friend of Jimmy Clark's was a sheepherder and he was stuck
with a flock of sheep way out an the prairie with no feed for the
animals. We took a load of hay in Jimmy's truck and his friend had a
big bulldozer which he used to make a trail through the snow from the
road ending to where the herder was. He had a little clearing in the
deep snow and about half of the sheep were laying around it frozen to
death.
The little sheepherder's wagon was very interesting and as it was 10
degrees below zero we were glad to get inside. There was Just room
for the four of us and the stove made it very warm.
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