Overview
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.
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Author: David Laskin ,
Paul Woodson
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Imprint: Tantor Audio
ISBN: 9781799980285
ISBN 10: 1799980286
Publication Date: 10 May 2016
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Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
A gripping story, well told.-- School Library Journal
"A gripping story, well told.-- ""School Library Journal"""
Author Information
David Laskin was educated at Harvard College and New College, Oxford. For the past twenty-five years, Laskin has written books and articles on a wide range of subjects, including history, weather, travel, gardens, and the natural world. His book The Children's Blizzard won the Washington State Book Award and the Midwest Booksellers' Choice Award for Nonfiction and was nominated for a Quill Award. Laskin's other titles include Braving the Elements: The Stormy History of American Weather; Partisans: Marriage, Politics and Betrayal Among the New York Intellectuals; A Common Life: Four Generations of American Literary Friendship and Influence; and Artists in their Gardens, coauthored with Valerie Easton. A frequent contributor to the New York Times Travel section, Laskin also writes for the Washington Post, the Seattle Times, and the Seattle Metropolitan. He and his wife live in Seattle. Paul Woodson has lived in the US and England, received a BFA in acting at Boston University, and has been acting and singing since the age of thirteen. He has recorded over one hundred audiobooks, many in the historical romance and Highlander genres, as well as fantasy novels, thrillers, classics, and young adult titles.
