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Kimball Historical Society Tuesday July 25th Rocky Mountain Locust Plagues of the 1870s

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I’m speaking at Kimball, Minnesota, on Tuesday, July 25th at 7pm. The topic? The Rocky Mountain Locusts and Frontier Life in Stearns County. The Rocky Mountain Locusts swarmed into Central North America in the 1870s devastating the crops for five  years in a row. Minnesota was a young state and the settlers were barely established. Without the safety net of government support, many gave up and returned east.

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