| Record Number |
859495 |
| ISBN |
9780399182297 (electronic bk) |
| Author |
Benjamin, Melanie, 1962- author. |
| Title |
The children's blizzard [electronic resource] : a novel / Melanie Benjamin. |
| Publisher/Date |
2021. |
| Pagination etc. |
1 online resource. |
| Contents note |
Downloadable eBook. |
| Summary Note |
They came on boats, on trains, great unceasing waves of them-the poor, the disenfranchised, the seekers, the dreamers. Second and third generations of farmers eking out an existence on scraps of farms divided up among too many sons. Political agitators no longer welcome in their homelands. Young men fleeing conscription in a king's army. Married couples starting out. Bachelors from towns with few women. The poor in tenements with air so stifling and foul there was no room to breathe, let alone dream. Come to Nebraska! Dakota Territory! Minnesota! Come to the Great Plains of America! Drawing on oral histories of the Great Plains blizzard of 1888, this book depicts the experiences of two teachers, a servant, and a reporter who risk everything to protect the children of immigrant homesteaders. |
| Subject |
Blizzards -- Dakota Territory -- History -- Fiction |
| Pioneers -- Dakota Territory -- Fiction |
| Immigrants -- Dakota Territory -- Fiction |
| Frontier and pioneer life -- Dakota Territory -- Fiction |
| Dakota Territory -- History -- Fiction |
| Historical fiction. |
| Electronic books. |
| Internet Site |
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