The children's blizzard
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Published
New York : HarperCollinsPublishers, [2004].
Edition
First edition.
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Published
New York : HarperCollinsPublishers, [2004].
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 307 pages : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Nonfiction.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-289) and index.
Description
The gripping true story of an epic prairie snowstorm that killed hundreds of newly arrived settlers and cast a shadow on the promise of the American frontier.
January 12, 1888, began as an unseasonably warm morning across Nebraska, the Dakotas, and Minnesota, the weather so mild that children walked to school without coats and gloves. But that afternoon, without warning, the atmosphere suddenly, violently changed. One moment the air was calm; the next the sky exploded in a raging chaos of horizontal snow and hurricane-force winds. Temperatures plunged as an unprecedented cold front ripped through the center of the continent.
By the next morning, some five hundred people lay dead on the drifted prairie, many of them children who had perished on their way home from country schools. In a few terrifying hours, the hopes of the pioneers had been blasted by the bitter realities of their harsh environment. Recent immigrants from Germany, Norway, Denmark, and the Ukraine learned that their free homestead was not a paradise but a hard, unforgiving place governed by natural forces they neither understood nor controlled.
With the storm as its dramatic, heartbreaking focal point, The Children's Blizzard captures this pivotal moment in American history by tracing the stories of five families who were forever changed that day. David Laskin has produced a masterful portrait of a tragic crucible in the settlement of the American heartland.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Laskin, D. (2004). The children's blizzard (First edition.). HarperCollinsPublishers.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Laskin, David, 1953-. 2004. The Children's Blizzard. HarperCollinsPublishers.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Laskin, David, 1953-. The Children's Blizzard HarperCollinsPublishers, 2004.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Laskin, David. The Children's Blizzard First edition., HarperCollinsPublishers, 2004.
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