The children's blizzard
The children's blizzardDavid Laskin

The children's blizzard (2004)

David Laskin

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Prior to the establishment of the National Weather Service, the U.S. Government lured homesteaders out to the Dakotas, Wyoming and other untested regions of the developing nations, partly by obscuring the harsh realties of the mercurial and deadly weather conditions in those areas. This non-fiction book details the tragic consequences--primarily to very young victims--of the "perfect storm" of 1888.

ISBN:
9780061438639
Length:
307 pages

Genres: biography

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This isn't a great book. I think I gave it three stars. You really have to like weather and like the meteorology of it all, I think, to really love this book, but in terms of people's stories and those who managed to survive even though they were stuck outside, it's pretty intense

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