The children's blizzard : a novel /
Benjamin, Melanie, 1962-
The children's blizzard : a novel / Melanie Benjamin. - First edition. - 351 pages : map ; 22 cm
"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.
9780399182280 0399182284
2020019690
Blizzards--History--Dakota Territory--Fiction.
Pioneers--Dakota Territory--Fiction.
Immigrants--Dakota Territory--Fiction.
Frontier and pioneer life--Dakota Territory--Fiction.
Dakota Territory--History--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Historical fiction.
The children's blizzard : a novel / Melanie Benjamin. - First edition. - 351 pages : map ; 22 cm
"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.
9780399182280 0399182284
2020019690
Blizzards--History--Dakota Territory--Fiction.
Pioneers--Dakota Territory--Fiction.
Immigrants--Dakota Territory--Fiction.
Frontier and pioneer life--Dakota Territory--Fiction.
Dakota Territory--History--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Historical fiction.