num_pages: 261
description: Clara’s Journal is a story of a young woman living on the Great Plains in the early 1900s, during the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic and a time of incredible importance to US history.Eighteen-year-old Clara Mae Horen lives on a small farm near Cresbard, South Dakota, and bears witness to young friends and neighbors dying from deadly flu. Clara records these deaths and shares details of her daily life in her personal journal. All the while, the world is embroiled in World War I, the fight for women’s suffragette and the 19th Amendment, the expansion of transcontinental railroads, the implementation of the 17th Amendment, Woodrow Wilson’s League of Nations Tour, the Omaha 1919 race riots, and the conditions of Lakota Sioux on the Cheyenne River Reservation.Using the journal of her grandaunt, Vickie Oddino weaves a fascinating story of life in the early 20th century and draws comparisons to the pandemic we are living through today. Enjoy a step back in time as we explore a community devastated by the 1918 influenza and a people who have more in common with us than we might suspect.
language: English
title: Clara's Journal: And the Story of Two Pandemics
publisher: Dobson St. Publishing