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The Children's Blizzard
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The Children's Blizzard (2004) (edit title/settings)

by David Laskin (Author) (edit contributors)

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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... read more

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  • Army Signal Corps: The branch of the U.S. Army that was once in charge of all weather forecasting for the country.

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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.

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Prologue

1. Departures and Arrivals
2. Trials
3. Disturbance
4. Indications
5. Cold Front
6. Explosion
7. God's Burning Finger
8. Exposure
9. Prairie Dawn
10. Sunday
11. Heroines
12. Aftermath

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  • Immersion hypothermia: The process by which water conducts heat away from the body -- 25 times faster than the process would happen in air.
  • Paradoxical undressing: In advanced hypothermia, the victim sometimes feels strangely warm, and may begin to undress themselves even though they are actually freezing to death.

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  1. David Laskin (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: HarperCollins
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2004
ISBN: 0060520752
Page Count: 320

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Reading Level: Young Adults

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