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Leader LDR nam a 00
Control # 1 hbl99076997
Date 5 20190911110927.0
Fixed Data 8 061128r20052004nyub b 001 0deng d
ISBN 20    $a0060520760 (pbk.)
Obsolete 39    $a312984$cTLC
Cat. Source 40    $aNjBwBT$cNjBwBT$dGCG
LC Call 50 14 $aF595$b.L37 2005
Dewey Class 82 04 $a977/.031$222
Dewey Class 82 14 $a977$214
ME:Pers Name 100 $aLaskin, David,$d1953-
Title 245 14 $aThe children's blizzard /$cDavid Laskin.
Edition 250    $a1st Harper Perennial ed.
Imprint 260    $aNew York :$bHarper Perennial$c2005, c2004.
Phys Descrpt 300    $aix, 307, 16 p. :$bmap ;$c21 cm.
Note:General 500    $aOriginally published: New York : HarperCollins, 2004.
Note:Bibliog 504    $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 273-289) and index.
Abstract 520    $aDescribes the deadly 1888 snowstorm in the Great Plains that killed more than five hundred people including numerous schoolchildren, describing how the storm devastated immigrant families and dramatically affected pioneer advancement.
Note:Content 505 $aDepartures and arrivals -- Trials -- Disturbance -- Indications -- Cold front-- Explosion -- God's burning finger -- Exposure -- Prairie dawn -- Sunday -- Heroines -- Aftermath.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aBlizzards$zMiddle West$xHistory$y19th century.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aPrairies$zMiddle West$xHistory$y19th century.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aChildren$zMiddle West$xDeath$xHistory$y19th century.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aHypothermia$zMiddle West$xHistory$y19th century.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aPioneers$zMiddle West$xHistory$y19th century.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aPioneers$zMiddle West$vBiography.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aImmigrants$zMiddle West$xHistory$y19th century.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aImmigrants$zMiddle West$vBiography.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aFrontier and pioneer life$zMiddle West.
Subj:Geog. 651  0 $aMiddle West$xHistory$y19th century.