![]() In a few terrifying hours, the hopes of the pioneers had been blasted by the bitter realities of their harsh environment. Temperatures plunged as an unprecedented cold front ripped through the center of the continent.īy Friday morning, January 13, some five hundred people lay dead on the drifted prairie, many of them children who had perished on their way home from country schools. One moment the air was calm the next the sky exploded in a raging chaos of horizontal snow and hurricane-force winds. ![]() But that afternoon, without warning, the atmosphere suddenly, violently changed. January 12, 1888, began as an unseasonably warm morning across Nebraska, the Dakotas, and Minnesota, the weather so mild that children walked to school without coats and gloves. The gripping story of an epic prairie snowstorm that killed hundreds of newly arrived settlers and cast a shadow on the promise of the American frontier. ![]() A masterful portrait of a tragic crucible in the settlement of the American heartland - the 'Children's Blizzard' of 1888. ![]()
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