Bibliograph

The children's blizzard, a novel, Melanie Benjamin

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The children's blizzard, a novel, Melanie Benjamin

Language

eng

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maps

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The children's blizzard

Oclc number

1154252604

Responsibility statement

Melanie Benjamin

Sub title

a novel

Summary

"They came on boats, on trains, great unceasing waves of them--the poor, the disenfranchised, the seekers, the dreamers. Second and third generations of farmers eking out an existence on scraps of farms divided up among too many sons. Political agitators no longer welcome in their homelands. Young men fleeing conscription in a king's army. Married couples starting out. Bachelors from towns with few women. The poor in tenements with air so stifling and foul there was no room to breathe, let alone dream. Come to Nebraska! Dakota Territory! Minnesota! Come to the Great Plains of America!"--Provided by publisher

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