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The Children's Blizzard

✍ Scribed by Laskin, David

Book ID: 108576943
Publisher: HarperCollins
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 286 KB
Category: Fiction

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✦ Synopsis

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.

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