![]() ![]() By the next morning, some five hundred people lay dead on the drifted prairie, many of them children who had perished on their way home from country schools. Temperatures plunged as an unprecedented cold front ripped through the center of the continent. ![]() One moment the air was calm the next the sky exploded in a raging chaos of horizontal snow and hurricane-force winds. ![]() But that afternoon, without warning, the atmosphere suddenly, violently changed. January 12, 1888, began as an unseasonably warm morning across Nebraska, the Dakotas, and Minnesota, the weather so mild that children walked to school without coats and gloves. This account of the 1888 blizzard reads like a thriller." - Entertainment Weekly The gripping true story of an epic prairie snowstorm that killed hundreds of newly arrived settlers and cast a shadow on the promise of the American frontier. This is a book best read with a fire roaring in the hearth and a blanket and box of tissues near at hand." - Erik Larson, author of The Devil in the White City "Heartbreaking. ![]() "David Laskin deploys historical fact of the finest grain to tell the story of a monstrous blizzard that caught the settlers of the Great Plains utterly by surprise. ![]()
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