The Children's Blizzard
By David Laskin
(Harper Perennial, Paperback, 9780060520762, 336pp.)
Publication Date: October 2005
Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook, Hardcover
Categories: Natural Disasters, United States - 19th Century/Old West, United States - State & Local - Midwest
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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.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.
“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
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