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Around Burlington: Ammonia ice was proof that not all things flow downstream Bob Hansen for The Hawk Eye What ever happened to winter those winters of 150 years ago when freezing to death was a very real possibility? Then Burlington residents spent the season huddled about sputtering fireplaces, wrapped in buffalo robes and cursing the fact they had not headed downriver to Louisiana when they had a chance. The Great River that had been a link to a distant civilization where snug homes and efficient stoves provide winter relief each winter became a barrier to escape. The only way to cross into Illinois and on to civilization was to gamble on a long, frightening walk across the crackling and shifting ice. ....