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01653aam a2200217 4500 001 961E88F81C3311ECA7A5583349ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210923010017 008 210823s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 020 $a 1799980278 020 $a 9781799980278 040 $d TxAuBib $d SILO 100 1 $a Laskin, David. 245 14 $a The Children's Blizzard $h [Sound Recording] / $c by David Laskin. 264 1 $a Old Saybrook, CT : $b Tantor Audio, $c 2016. 300 $a 8 discs, unabridged, 9 1/2 hours. 500 $a 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. 541 $d 20210823. 941 $a 1 952 $l YAPC771 $d 20210923011405.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=961E88F81C3311ECA7A5583349ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search