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The children's blizzard : a novel / Melanie Benjamin.

By: Publisher: New York : Delacorte Press, [2021]Description: 351 pages : map ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0399182284
  • 9780399182280
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • FIC
LOC classification:
  • PS3608.A876 C48 2021
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!
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Fiction Flesherton Branch Shelves FIC Benja (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 32241001130758

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!

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