
Thousands of impoverished Northern European immigrants were promised that the prairie offered "land, freedom, and hope." The disastrous blizzard of 1888 revealed that their free homestead was not a paradise but a hard, unforgiving place governed by natural forces they neither understood nor controlled, and America’s heartland would never be the same.
Page Count:
336
Publication Date:
2005-01-01
ISBN-10:
0060520760
ISBN-13:
9780060520762
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