The Children's Blizzard (P.S.)

By David Laskin

Subjects: Hypothermia, Frontier and pioneer life, middle west, Prairies, Nonfiction, Middle west, history, Pioneers, Blizzards, Immigrants, middle east, History

Description: 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.