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The Children's Blizzard (P.S.)
 

The Children's Blizzard (P.S.)

by David Laskin


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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Monica N
  • Rated 4 stars

“I learned so much from reading this book about the famous schoolchildren's blizzard that I had heard of while growing up in North Dakota. There is plenty of data, but it is to simply paint a very clear picture of how serious this blizzard was. We are talking about a drop in temperature of 40 degrees in just 4 hours, and the temp still fell at least 30 more by night. Wind at 60 miles per hour with gusts of 80. To borrow a small part of the book..."The air was so thick with fine-ground...”

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BookLover65
  • Rated 2 stars

“This book was fascinating in the fact it is a true story, but sometimes the technical aspects of the weather monitoring was a little boring. The weather that our pioneers endured is a testament to the true "pioneer Spirit" that we Americans hear about these days. I really enjoyed the authors notes in the back of the book.”

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  • Rated 3.881579 stars
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  • Rated 4.5 stars
  

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  • Vincent L

    vincent l said:

    “I liked this simple book about a winter in 1888. I found it factual and interesting, and gave a glimpse on what was going on in the context of weather and meteorology backthen, withoutbe opinionated or subjecting me to extra drama (the story was dramatic enough). Anyone thinking about how to survive in difficult circumstances would probably find this fascinating..Warning to all: if you are freezing to death and make it to daylight, DON'T STAND UP!!”

    posted Tuesday, May 13 2008
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