Febold Feboldson
By : Darcy, Tyanna , and Austen
Background information
Febold Feboldson was invented by a Nebraska lumber dealer named Wayne Carroll. Febold thought he would die of loneliness because all his neighbors on the great plains were moving to California to look for gold.
Challenges
He wanted people to stay in the Great Plains instead of moving to California.
He was against nature because it wouldn’t rain.
Trait # 1-recourceful
He told people how to get their fence posts in the ground
He told the pioneers how to fight prarie weather like dust storms and tornadoes
Trait # 2-cleverHe thought of evaporating the lake
He knew to get frogs to make noise to get rain
Trait # 3-Determined
He didn’t give up when the pioneers wanted to leave because there was no rain
He kept going when the pioneers wanted to leave because they couldn’t see
Exaggerations
He hypnotized a frog
He evaporated a lake with a bonfire
He cut fog into strips with scissors
A strip of fog scared away the clouds
Settings
Lived on the great plains
Only one lake for miles
Very hard ground
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