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Date Posted: 10:59:11 06/06/05 Mon
Author: Ann
Subject: The Children's Blizzard
I'm reading a book called The Children's Blizzard which tell about a terrible storm in the Great Plains in January of 1888 that killed several hundred people, many of them schoolchildren who were just leaving school for the day when the storm struck. Many of the children had not gone to school for weeks because the weather had been so terrible, but this day started out sunny and warmer than it had been in a long time.
There is reference in the LIW book to The Long Winter, which tells of a an earlier year of many blizzards that was referred to as the Snow Winter back then. The mention of that book and quotes from it are about 2 pages.
The book is very compelling, except for a part in the middle I'm skimming through because it goes into way too much detail for me about weather forecasting.
The chapters about the families and settling in the Great Plains is very interesting, and I'm just a few pages into the actual storm and it is fascinating.
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Sounds good. -- delilah, 06:58:35 06/08/05 Wed
Does it focus on how the families coped during the storm? Is it fiction? You'll have to tell us about it when you are finished. What is the title? I may check it out for myself.
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Re: Sounds good. -- Ann, 11:16:57 06/08/05 Wed
It's non-fiction, though the author does provide some dialogue that he had to create, and description of what happened in some scenes where the only people who would have known *exactly* what happened didn't survive to tell the details.
All the chapters about the homesteaders and the blizzard and what happened to the settlers and children is *very* interesting.
There are a couple chapters about weatherforcasting and the forecasters that were not so interesting to me, so I just skimmed through those, and one chapter on how a person freezes to death that I couldn't read all the way through to the end because it was so sad and unpleasant, but I read enough to be informed.
What happened to some who initially survived was very interesting, and how things might have been different for some if modern medicine and modern medical knowledge had been around.
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Re: Sounds good. -- LisaE, 20:01:04 07/01/05 Fri
I have read quick reviews etc. on this book, and it does look very interesting. I plan to get a hold of it sometime soon. My local library doesn't carry it (of course).
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Re: The Children's Blizzard -- LisaE, 15:35:50 07/14/05 Thu
Ann! I just started this book last night. Not to far into it yet, only chapter 2. Just reading about the immigrants though in the 1st chapter is depressing. Reading about how horrible the weather is on the prairie leaves me to believe it's no wonder Laura and Almanzo left DeSmet for Florida.
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Re: The Children's Blizzard -- Michelle, 16:39:00 07/15/05 Fri
I recently got this book through inter-library loan. (I hadn't heard about it before this site and fronteir girl girl) I thought it was relly good, though I also skimmed thru the technical wether things. Some of the stories were so sand with the immigrants coing over and I don't know how some of those people survived like they did.
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Re: The Children's Blizzard -- Ann, 21:50:53 07/20/05 Wed
I just got back from vacation, and am getting caught up with the board. :) I felt so bad for the immigrants. They came to America and settled in that Dakota territory with such high hopes and so many of them ended up leaving because they just couldn't make a go of it with the blizzards in the winter and dry weather in the summer.
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Ann or anyone interested.small Frontier house update -- LisaE, 22:21:17 07/28/05 Thu
I was reading on the "Frontier girl" board a post by a lady who went to DeSmet recently (it's in her title post). Anyways she mentions how she talked to two of the lady's who worked on the production of the show and it mentions a teeny tiny update on the cast members. FYI.
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Omigosh! -- Ann, 15:14:52 07/29/05 Fri
Thanks for posting that, Lisa! I went to the other board and checked it out, and I'm not surprised about the Glenns being divorced (that was in the works by the follow-up at the end of the show, I think), but I'm surprised if the rumor about the Clunes is true. They seemed like a couple on the same wave-length anyway. If it's true about the surfer, I think Adrienne may end up disappointed, as I'd guess it wouldn't last. Maybe she had too much time on her hands after the experience on Frontier House.
The Glenn's daughter (the one now considering colleges) and the Clune cousin seemed to be the two who really got the most out of their Frontier House time.
I've wondered if it wasn't almost as difficult for some of the settlers (or would-be settlers) back then as it was for the modern-day families to try to create a home on the frontier. I bet a lot of folks back then didn't really know anything about farming, plowing, etc either, and it was the only ones who did or the really stubborn ones who made it.
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