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Also by David Laskin:

What Sammy Knew, March 2021
Hardcover / e-Book
The Family, October 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
The Long Way Home, March 2011
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
The Children's Blizzard, October 2005
Paperback (reprint)
Partisans, April 2001
Paperback (reprint)

The Children's Blizzard
David Laskin

Harper Perennial
October 2005
On Sale: October 1, 2005
336 pages
ISBN: 0060520760
EAN: 9780060520762
Paperback (reprint)
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Non-Fiction History

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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