The children's blizzard, a novel, Melanie Benjamin
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The children's blizzard, a novel, Melanie Benjamin
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eng
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no index present
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fiction
Main title
The children's blizzard
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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!
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- Domestic fiction
- Historical fiction
- Blizzards -- Dakota Territory -- History -- Fiction
- Blizzards -- Dakota Territory -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Fiction
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Dakota Territory -- Fiction
- Pioneers -- Dakota Territory -- Fiction
- Dakota Territory -- History -- Fiction
- Immigrants -- Dakota Territory -- Fiction
Content
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- Classification1
- Creator1
- Genre2
- Subject9
- Domestic fiction
- Historical fiction
- Blizzards -- Dakota Territory -- History -- Fiction
- Blizzards -- Dakota Territory -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Fiction
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Dakota Territory -- Fiction
- Pioneers -- Dakota Territory -- Fiction
- Dakota Territory -- History -- Fiction
- Immigrants -- Dakota Territory -- Fiction
- Content2
- Author1