Great Tales of the Gold Rush brings together a sampling of the best of those stories. The Wit and Wisdom of the West. It's so Cold on the Prairies . . . It's so cold on the prairies that even politicians keep their hands in their own pockets. If you've ever had your tongue stuck to a chainlink fence - this book is for you.
Every page is illustrated with a humorous weather saying.
So sit back and enjoy. It's so Cold on the Prairies . He was born and raised a prairie fella, and after a brief stint in the tropical environs of the Wet Coast, he returned inland to a small Manitoba farm community. Imagine Little Cypress in the 50s, washday religiously observed, gossip exchanged, children carefully supervised and immorality outlawed. Now imagine a cloud of butterflies blown off course by a high wind, falling like an orange cloak over the same town of Little Cypress.