The Children's Blizzard (P.S.)
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: October 11, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780060520762
Subjects: United States - State & Local - Midwest; U.S. History - Late 19th Century (1877-1900); Atmospheric Disturbances; Nature; History - U.S; History: World; Nature/Ecology; Weather; United States - 19th Century/Old West; Natural Disasters; History / General; 19th century; Great Plains; History; Middle West; aMiddle West
First sentence: Land, freedom, and hope. In the narrow stony valleys of Norway and the heavily taxed towns of Saxony and Westphalia, in Ukrainian villages bled by the recruiting officers of the czars and Bohemian farms that had been owned and tilled for generations by the same families, land, freedom, and hope meant much the same thing in the last quarter of the nineteenth century: America.