Original sentence: Almanzo was just 23 and Garland a mere teen when, in between one of the horrific blizzards that shook the region during the 1880-1881 winter, they went  in search of wheat a farmer had supposedly harvested to the southwest of De Smet in the summer of 1880
Edited sentence: Almanzo was 23 and Garland a mere teen when, in between one of the horrific blizzards that shook the region during the 1880-1881 winter, they went  in search of wheat a farmer had supposedly harvested to the southwest of De Smet in the summer of 1880