Our guiding area covered hundreds of square miles of wetlands and meadows, rivers and lakes. My Dad was noted for his migratory bird hunting, in which we were all involved. The territory was huge and hundreds of thousands of geese and ducks nested and migrated through our area, every year. Dad鈥檚 houseboat was used for this for over 40 years. We lost everything in 1952, when the flooding began鈥nd his houseboat was crushed by the ice and the rising flood waters that first winter.
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