About this title: Drawing on family interviews and memoirs, as well as hundreds of contemporary accounts, here is a meticulous account of the blizzard of January 12, 1888, which killed some 500 settlers in Nebraska, the Dakotas, and Minnesota--many of them children lost on their way home from school.
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Edition: 1st Printing
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Perennial Library, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780060520762ISBN:0060520760
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 10/11/2005
ISBN-13:9780060520762ISBN:0060520760
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins
Date Published: 2004-11-01
ISBN-13:9780060520755ISBN:0060520752
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins
Date Published: first printing, 2004
ISBN-13:9780060520755ISBN:0060520752
Description: Very Good/Very Good hard cover. 8vo, boards, 307pp. edgewear, rubbing, a few small stains, price clipped, dust jacket. clean, tight, text. places. read more
"This book, although history and not fiction, reads like a gripping thriller. (I had trouble putting it down.) And it's about weather, no less!
But this is not about an ordinary storm. Frowing up in Minnesota, I've seen many dangerous, life-threatening blizzards myself but nothing that was as devastating as this one. Imagine Hurricane Katrina as a blizzard instead of a hurricane. As if that isn't bad enough, imagine it happening to some of the poorest settlers just before the turn of the century--so poor that they lived in sod huts dotted on the bleak windy prairie. Those of us who have lived through a winter on the prairie know the relief of the warm "January thaw". To make the devastation even worse, this infamous blizzard arrived in the middle of one of those deceptive January thaw afternoons and caught hundreds of people unprepared for even a "usual" blizzard's wrath.
Especially fascinating to me is the immigrant's personal histories and names: these are family names, towns and stories that are familiar to me. And now it makes even more sense to me why the older generation was so militant about not being caught unprepared for a blizzard (as if you need any incentive once you've ever been caught in ANY blizzard). It also gives a new sense of awareness why the National Weather Service and weather prediction was such an obsession with so many people I knew growing up."
"Stayed up until 3 a.m reading this book! Foolish, foolish! And it totally freaked me out too. All those children freezing to death. Horrible. The weird thing is the author kept making references to 9/11 and how the scale of the School Children's Blizzard disaster was similar and I was reading it on 9/11. The whole thing was most disturbing. That said, I found the book really fascinating in many different ways. For one thing I have never, ever thought about the history of meteorology and how we developed weather forecasting in this country, so that was all new to me. Secondly, I loved reading about the various settlers lives and how they came to be in the Dakotas. I never knew there were Swedish Mennonites living in the Ukraine who settled out in the West. I also found the contrasting story of Woodruff and his career and how he botched the forecasting (though really, what good would it have done if he had been accurate? How would you get the word to all those settlers anyway?)interesting."
"This book started out rather slow and dry, which is why I did not give it a five star rating. Although I learned about some of the geographical and meteorological effects that can combine to create a storm like the one described which was somewhat interesting, and the description of the settlement of the area was enlightening (for instance I didn't know there was a strong Norwegian contingent) - other parts of the preamble were outright boring (for instance the in-depth description of how a particular forecaster came to receive, and then lose his job in the area). What was incredibly enthralling, especially for someone who has seen her share of blizzards in the wide open prairies in Canada just to the north of the area described in the book) was the description of the severity of the storm, the huge impact it had on so many lives, the heroism, the tragedy and the suffering that resulted. I had never heard of this infamous blizzard of 1888, but now I can appreciate the magnitude of the effect it had on the settlers who lived in the northern Midwest in the late 19th century. I especially was drawn in by the various personal stories of those who were lost, and some who were saved, after spending the night out in that terrible storm."
"This book focused on the settling of the Great Plains in the late 1800's and the impact that weather had. The author uses a horrific blizzard in 1888 as his key example. The storm hit just as school was being dismissed which caused the death of hundreds of children in a single afternoon. He also details the history of weather prediction which was very interesting. However, I found the book very disjointed. He tells a lot of interesting stories about various immigrant groups that went West, but he jumps around so much that it makes their stories difficult to follow."
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