OK. I need to put in a few factual statements:
- Deer are not a protected species – but they can only be hunted during hunting season (with a proper license), – which this is not. Unless you are a Native American and are hunting on reservation land.
Having said that, it definitely does screw up the food dynamic not to allow them to hunt. In real 1883 they would go shoot deer, rabbits, elk, bear, moose, geese, duck – any number of things and have a lot better diet. I think the producers could have and should have compensated for this by providing something. The Crow (was he a chief?) did the right thing. The producers should be doing that - or similar since they can’t kill anything out of season either.
- Milk cows need to be milked on a schedule. If they are not milked on or about the right time, morning and night, they get pretty cranky. I would be surprised if she would have walked home with them with a full udder. What bothered me was - where was the calf? I didn’t see her following her mom back to the house.
The Glenns should have helped build the corral, no question. The least he could have done was offered them some warmth when they were freezing trying to milk the poor cow.
- Wet dresses in a Montana snowstorm would not have been a good idea.
That’s all. I want to see how the future Mrs. Nate holds up. I think she is in for a surprise herself.