. Abraham Lincoln; a history . ins hoping for some mitigation of thefrost. When at last they were driven out by thefear of famine, the labor of establishing communi-^■■Ea^i^v^ cations was enormous. They finally made roads8angamo°i by wallowiug through the snow, as an Illinois^ ^ historian expresses it, and going patiently over thesame track until the snow was trampled hard androunded like a turnpike. These roads lasted farinto the spring, when the snow had melted fromthe plains, and wound for miles like threads ofsilver over the rich black loam of the that winter game was ne
. Abraham Lincoln; a history . ins hoping for some mitigation of thefrost. When at last they were driven out by thefear of famine, the labor of establishing communi-^■■Ea^i^v^ cations was enormous. They finally made roads8angamo°i by wallowiug through the snow, as an Illinois^ ^ historian expresses it, and going patiently over thesame track until the snow was trampled hard androunded like a turnpike. These roads lasted farinto the spring, when the snow had melted fromthe plains, and wound for miles like threads ofsilver over the rich black loam of the that winter game was never again so plenti-ful in the State. Much still remained, of course,but it never recovered entirely from the rigors ofthat season and the stupid enterprise of the pio-neer hunters, who, when they came out of theirsnow-beleaguered cabins, began chasing and killingthe starved deer by herds. It was easy work; thecrust of the snow was strong enough to bear the co c CD H i B>> ao H o o n H w BH ao >• QD 2!O o H 0 0. THE U^^ftR^OF THE n^^V G? iU-^ n\S ILLINOIS IN 1830 49 Old Times In McLeau County, p. 111. weight of men and dogs, but the slender hoofs of chap. deer would after a few bounds pierce thetreacherous surface. This destructive slaughterwent on until the game grew too lean to be worththe killing. All sorts of wild animals grew scarcefrom that winter. Old settlers say that the slowcowardly breed of prairie wolves, which used to becaught and killed as readily as sheep, disappearedabout that time and none but the fleeter andstronger survived. Only once since then has nature shown such ex-travagant severity in Illinois, and that was on aday in the winter of 1836, known to Illinoisans as the sudden change. At noon on the 20th ofDecember, after a warm and rainy morning, theground being covered with mud and slush, thetemperature fell instantly forty degrees. A manriding into Springfield for a marriage license saysa roaring and crackling wind came upon him and
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