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This is not a story of triumph. It’s not a tale of defiance, or vengeance, or victory. It’s the quiet unraveling of a life built on promises the earth never agreed to keep. In the wake of the 1875 Rocky Mountain locust swarm—the most devastating insect plague in American history—one settler family watches their world erode into silence. There are no heroes here. Just weathered hands, chewed-up fields, and the slow, suffocating persistence of survival without reward.

Told in immersive second person, this video walks you through the days, then weeks, then years after the swarm—where the wind carries more than dust, and memory becomes heavier than hunger.

If you're still here by the end, thank you. You weren't meant to win. But you endured anyway.

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