Bright with silver

Once in a while, even in the twentieth century, this country still sees enacted the kind of drama that made America what it is - the story of men tapping an unsuspected natural resource and adding another great industry to the national economy. One of the most astonishing of these latter-day frontier sagas is the story of the Fromms who, in the early 1900's, were the four youngest sons of a large family on a wilderness farm in Wisconsin. They helped their parents in the struggle for a bare existence, they earned everything they wore and ate, and they dreamed of snaring in their traps one day…