An Illustrated Account of ‘The Great Die-Up’ of the 1880s
By Lucas Adams
on April 2, 2014
How a cattle boom in Badlands followed by a hard winter led to 9 out of 10 cattle dying on the range.
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This article of that horrible winter was very interesting. Thank you for writing this.
I am interested in these type of historical articles. Anyone else?