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The Children's Blizzard by David Laskin (2004, Hardcover)

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"David Laskin deploys historical fact of the finest grain to tell the story of a monstrous blizzard that caught the settlers of the Great Plains utterly by surprise. . . . This is a book best read with a fire roaring in the hearth and a blanket and box of tissues near at hand." -- Erik Larson, author of The Devil in the White City "Heartbreaking. . . . This account of the 1888 blizzard reads like a thriller." -- Entertainment Weekly 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. The P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.

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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0060520752
ISBN-13
9780060520755
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30866310

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Book Title
Children's Blizzard
Author
David Laskin
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Weather, Natural Disasters, Emigration & Immigration, United States / State & Local / MidWest (IA, Il, in, Ks, Mi, MN, Mo, Nd, Ne, Oh, Sd, Wi), United States / 19th Century, Ecosystems & Habitats / Plains & Prairies, Adventurers & Explorers, General, Modern / 19th Century, United States / General
Publication Year
2004
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Nature, Medical, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
320 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
20 oz

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Lc Classification Number
F595.L37 2004
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The American prairie has its indelible epics --the luck-charmed journey of Lewis and Clark, the Oregon Trail tales and travails--and The Children's Blizzard adds to our trove of western lore the nearly lost story of a mighty blow of nature. David Laskin's telling of the immense 1888 blizzard that struck the homestead communities of the Dakotas and beyond is elegant in its research and eloquent in its recountings of prairie dwellers facing impossible weather. This is a haunting book about the odds stacked against the settlers of the American heartland., An adroit, sensitive drama and a skillful addition to a popular genre. . . . A perceptive presentation, evoking lives unnoticed by history but for the tragedy of this storm., In The Children's Blizzard, David Laskin deploys historical fact of the finest grain to tell the story of a monstrous blizzard that caught the settlers of the Great Plains utterly by surprise. Using the storm as a lens, Laskin captures the brutal, heartbreaking folly of this chapter in America's history, and along the way delves into the freakish physics of extreme cold. This is a book best read with a fire roaring in the hearth and a blanket and box of tissues near at hand., Laskin has written a fascinating account of the day the wind finally did what it always promises to do on those bleak Dakota prairies. . . . [He] has chosen his subject brilliantly, for something did change in that winter blast.
Copyright Date
2004
Lccn
2005-295018
Dewey Decimal
977/.031
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes

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