--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Steele, Frank C. collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 25 number: 3 published: 1922-01 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Frank C. Steele, "Forty Below," *Improvement Era* 25, no. 3 (January 1922): 229.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2503unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera2503unse start_page: 229 end_page: 229 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1922-01) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2503unse publication_year: 1922 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1922, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Forty Below Forty Below It's forty below on the prairie, And the snow lies hard and white; And up on high, in the starlit sky, Rides the moon in her murky light. A wind from the ice-ribbed Arctic, Cuts the flesh like a lance of steel; And its cruel breath like a scourge of death Makes the critters shake and reel. Humped-up in a snow-filled coulee, The helpless cattle cry; Then silence reigns o'er the ghastly plains As the "dogies" lunge and — die. Lethbridge, Canada Frank C. Steele