The Children's Blizzard

Type

Book

Authors

David Laskin

ISBN 10

0060520760

ISBN 13

9780060520762

Tags

State & Local, World, Atmospheric Sciences, Natural Disasters, Weather, Sports & Outdoors

Description

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.This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more. - from Amzon

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