The Children's Blizzard Paperback - 2005
by David Laskin
Drawing on family interviews and memoirs, as well as hundreds of contemporary accounts, here is a meticulous account of the blizzard of January 12, 1888, which killed some 500 settlers in Nebraska, the Dakotas, and Minnesota--many of them children lost on their way home from school.
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First line
Land, freedom, and hope. In the narrow stony valleys of Norway and the heavily taxed towns of Saxony and Westphalia, in Ukrainian villages bled by the recruiting officers of the czars and Bohemian farms that had been owned and tilled for generations by the same families, land, freedom, and hope meant much the same thing in the last quarter of the nineteenth century: America.
From the rear cover
Thousands of impoverished Northern European immigrants were promised that the prairie offered "land, freedom, and hope." The disastrous blizzard of 1888 revealed that their free homestead was not a paradise but a hard, unforgiving place governed by natural forces they neither understood nor controlled, and America's heartland would never be the same.
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- Title The Children's Blizzard
- Author David Laskin
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 3rd
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, New York
- Date 2005-10-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780060520762 / 0060520760
- Weight 0.57 lbs (0.26 kg)
- Dimensions 8.12 x 5.34 x 0.8 in (20.62 x 13.56 x 2.03 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Chronological Period: 1851-1899
- Cultural Region: Midwest
- Cultural Region: Plains
- Seasonal: Winter
- Topical: Ecology
- Library of Congress subjects Pioneers - Middle West, Frontier and pioneer life - Middle West
- Dewey Decimal Code 977.02
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Citations
- Booksense '76 December 2005, 12/01/2005, Page 1
- Ingram Advance, 11/01/2005, Page 84
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