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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. 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." -- Erik Larson, author of The Devil in the White City

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.

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"Laskin captures the brutal, heartbreaking folly of this chapter in America's history."--Erik Larson, author of Isaac's Storm and The Devil in the White City

"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."--Booklist

"A gripping chronicle of meteorological chance and human folly and error. . . . Novelistic [and] consistently affecting. . . . A rewarding read."--Publishers Weekly

"Terrifying and often vivid. . . . Laskin skillfully weaves together a clear report and explanation of the meteorological event with harrowing accounts of slow death, loss, and, survival. This book should be read by anyone wishing to fathom the terrible cost of settling that desolate, dangerous, and beautiful land."--The Atlantic Monthly

"Laskin pulls no punches. . . . The Children's Blizzard is a welcome contribution to the historical literature of American life and westward expansion."--Chicago Sun-Times

"Unearthing the stories buried in a killer snow, David Laskin compellingly recounts a devastating 1888 snowstorm."--The Seattle Times

"Heart-breaking. . . . This account of the 1888 blizzard that killed more than 100 children in the Great Plains reads like a thriller. . . . Laskin reminds us that the pioneer life wasn't so much romantic as it was deadly."--Entertainment Weekly

"In The Children's Blizzard, Mr. Laskin has written a fascinating account of the day the wind finally did what it always promises to do on those bleak Dakota prairies. . . . Mr. Laskin has chosen his subject brilliantly, for something did change in that winter blast."--The Wall Street Journal

"A terrifying but beautifully written book."--The Washington Post

"Terrifying and often vivid.... Laskin skillfully weaves together a clear report and explanation of the meteorological event with harrowing accounts of slow death, loss, and, survival."--The Atlantic Monthly
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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 controlled, and America's heartland would never be the same.

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  • PublisherHarper Perennial
  • Publication date2005
  • ISBN 10 0060520760
  • ISBN 13 9780060520762
  • BindingPaperback
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