Settlers Laughed at Lumberjacks’ “Wrong” Design — Until They Survived The Harshest Winter On Record

September 1880. Dakota Territory settlers laughed at three lumberjacks spending weeks building a cabin with strange corner joints and perfectly hewn logs. "What a waste of time," they said. "Our cabins took four days to build."
Then October 15th arrived. The temperature dropped 40 degrees in hours. A blizzard hit that wouldn't stop for seven months. The winter of 1880-1881 became the worst winter on record in American frontier history.
Inside typical settler cabins, families froze as wind screamed through gaps in round logs. They burned furniture just to survive. Some cabins collapsed under snow loads. But inside the lumberjacks' cabin with its dovetail corners and flat-hewn logs? Warm. Windproof. Solid.
The difference between adequate construction and expert craftsmanship became the difference between life and death. This is the true story of how old-world logging techniques learned in Scandinavian timber camps saved lives during America's most brutal frontier winter.

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