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05689cam a2200865 a 4500 001 2786FDB4AC3311EB98A411E3203FDB2A 003 SILO 005 20210503121523 008 050126s2004 nyub b 001 0deng d 010 $a 2005295018 020 $a 9780739453674 020 $a 073945367X 020 $a 9780060520762 020 $a 0060520760 020 $a 9780060520755 020 $a 0060520752 035 $a (OCoLC)56955786 040 $a SDL $b eng $c DLC $d SDL $d OCL $d OCLCQ $d XY4 $d BAKER $d NLGGC $d BTCTA $d IOQ $d YDXCP $d CLU $d CO3 $d HEBIS $d Z87 $d CHVBK $d OCLCF $d OCLCQ $d OVY $d NDS $d OCL $d AW3 $d OCLCO $d NCRJL $d OCLCO $d OCLCA $d OCLCQ $d SFR $d WYZ $d OCLCQ $d AL5MG $d OCLCQ $d QQ3 $d BRL $d O2C $d BGU $d OCLCO $d JVU $d OCL $d OCLCO $d YFZ $d OCLCO $d OCL $d OCLCA $d OCL $d OCLCA $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d O2L $d UKMGB $d SILO 042 $a lccopycat 043 $a n-usc-- 050 00 $a F595 $b .L37 2004 050 14 $a QC926.44.G73 $b L37 2004 082 00 $a 977/.031 $2 22 082 04 $a 978/.02 $2 22 084 $a 15.85 $2 bcl 100 1 $a Laskin, David, $d 1953- 245 14 $a The children's blizzard / $c David Laskin. 250 $a 1st ed. 260 $a New York : $b HarperCollins, $c ©2004. 300 $a ix, 307 pages : $b map ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a The gripping 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 Friday morning, January 13, 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. Drawing on family interviews and memoirs, as well as hundreds of contemporary accounts, David Laskin creates an intimate picture of the men, women, and children who made choices they would regret as long as they lived. Here too is a meticulous account of the evolution of the storm and the vain struggle of government forecasters to track its progress. The blizzard of January 12, 1888, is still remembered on the prairie. Children fled that day while their teachers screamed into the relentless roar. Husbands staggered into the blinding wind in search of wives. Fathers collapsed while trying to drag their children to safety. 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