In a message dated 5/24/03 2:36:11 AM !!!First Boot!!!, casmero@crocker.com writes: > had not heard about 1880 as a starvation year, but earlier, in 1816, was > a year that sent many New Englanders migrating westward. > My brain is trying to remember but wasn't there a great East Coast blizzard in 1884? And while trying to find mention of it I found great Blizzards on the prairies in 1886. the 1880-90s were hard winters as I remember reading. Eliz