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The Children's Blizzard (Paperback)

By David Laskin
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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.

This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.

About the Author

David Laskin is the author of The Children's Blizzard, winner of the Midwest Booksellers' Choice Award for nonfiction and the Washington State Book Award. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Smithsonian magazine. He lives in Seattle, Washington.

Praise for The Children's Blizzard…

“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

Product Details ISBN-10: 0060520760
ISBN-13: 9780060520762
Published: Harper Perennial, 10/01/2005
Pages: 336
Language: English
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