The Monster Blizzard That Turned Kansas Into a Frozen Wasteland (Erin Blakemore)
The 1886 blizzard imperiled settlers and left fields of dead cattle in its wake. As the stage coach drove up to Camp Supply, its passengers must have felt relieved. They’d been caught in a storm, and the coach’s horses had lost their path in the Kansas snow. Finally, the coach arrived at Camp Supply, a military outpost …