The Children's Blizzard, (Paperback)

from brenzi

"Chance is always a silent partner in disaster. Bad luck, bad timing, the wrong choice at a crucial moment, and the door is inexorably shut and barred. The tragedy of the Jan. 12 blizzard was that the bad timing extended across a region and cut through the shared experiences of an entire populati...

from bcquinnsmom

In January of 1888, a terrible blizzard, which came to be known as the "Schoolchildren's Blizzard" blew in across the Nebraska & Dakota Territory prairie. It was so-called because the deaths from the blizzard were largely of children who left school because of the bad weather coming. Sadly, they ...

from DeltaQueen50

The Children's Blizzard by David Laskin is a fascinating book about a powerful, freak blizzard that occurred in the upper Midwest of America on January 12, 1888. I found this an extremely moving, well researched book that caught and held my attention from cover to cover. The author follows a few ...

from eleanor_eader

"We have been calling every storm a blizzard," the Reverend S. F. Huntley wrote to a friend in New York, "but then [after January 12] decided that we had never had a blizzard before and never wanted one again." 'The School Children's Blizzard', as it came to be known, swept across the American Mi...

from nittnut

This is a history of the January 12, 1888 blizzard that devastated families and farms in the Dakota territories. It is also so much more. The story begins by detailing the journey of the immigrants from Norway, Germany and Eastern Europe. They were lured by the promise of free land perfect for fa...