RON'S WRITINGS: GIANT FOOTPRINTS: TRIBUTE TO PIONEER DAKOTANS, 1865-1945
Part Two, Coming of the Iron Horse
Guth's future bride came on the train--Lucy Parsons to DeSmet. In '88 weather turned insane, a killer blizzard the country hit, freezing housecats where they sit. Frantic men crawled in deep snow, passing homelights brightly lit. At her schoolhouse door Lucy said "No!" She saved the children, not letting them go.
The rail line brought boom to Bryant. Settlers poured in from all parts. Like Guth, hard-working, self-reliant, they soon had churches, school, and the arts. Filled with honest souls and giving hearts, the Frontier City built up fast. Produce poured from farms in carts, a Cornucopia seeming to last, a New Lebanon from the Bible's past.
Bryant, SD, "Biggest Little City of the Northwest"
David, Lucy, met and married, the year was 1894. Railways had not yet bowed to greed, as a new century knocked at the door. Anyone who worked could gain, and more; Welfare was a neighbor's hand, dependence non-existent. No one thought himself was poor, even though he might lack one red cent, as long as he had able hands his Maker lent.
Fire Destroyed a Lumberyard, but the Grain Elevators--the Staff of Bread for Bryant--Survived
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