Author: Bruce A. Kohn
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780988592209
Category : Dakota women
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
A biography of Helen Hastings Sibley, the daughter of Henry Sibley and a Dakota Indian mother, who spent her childhood with the Brown family in St. Paul where she met her future husband, Sylvester Sawyer, moved to Milwaukee as the wife of a doctor, and died of scarlet fever.
Dakota Child, Governor's Daughter
Author: Bruce A. Kohn
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780988592209
Category : Dakota women
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
A biography of Helen Hastings Sibley, the daughter of Henry Sibley and a Dakota Indian mother, who spent her childhood with the Brown family in St. Paul where she met her future husband, Sylvester Sawyer, moved to Milwaukee as the wife of a doctor, and died of scarlet fever.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780988592209
Category : Dakota women
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
A biography of Helen Hastings Sibley, the daughter of Henry Sibley and a Dakota Indian mother, who spent her childhood with the Brown family in St. Paul where she met her future husband, Sylvester Sawyer, moved to Milwaukee as the wife of a doctor, and died of scarlet fever.
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 1480
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 1480
Book Description
The Children's Blizzard
Author: David Laskin
Publisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 0061866520
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
“David Laskin deploys historical fact of the finest grain to tell the story of a monstrous blizzard that caught the settlers of the Great Plains utterly by surprise. . . . This is a book best read with a fire roaring in the hearth and a blanket and box of tissues near at hand.” — Erik Larson, author of The Devil in the White City “Heartbreaking. . . . This account of the 1888 blizzard reads like a thriller.” — Entertainment Weekly The gripping true story of an epic prairie snowstorm that killed hundreds of newly arrived settlers and cast a shadow on the promise of the American frontier. 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. But that afternoon, without warning, the atmosphere suddenly, violently changed. One moment the air was calm; the next the sky exploded in a raging chaos of horizontal snow and hurricane-force winds. Temperatures plunged as an unprecedented cold front ripped through the center of the continent. By the next morning, some five hundred people lay dead on the drifted prairie, many of them children who had perished on their way home from country schools. In a few terrifying hours, the hopes of the pioneers had been blasted by the bitter realities of their harsh environment. Recent immigrants from Germany, Norway, Denmark, and the Ukraine learned that their free homestead was not a paradise but a hard, unforgiving place governed by natural forces they neither understood nor controlled. With the storm as its dramatic, heartbreaking focal point, The Children's Blizzard captures this pivotal moment in American history by tracing the stories of five families who were forever changed that day. David Laskin has produced a masterful portrait of a tragic crucible in the settlement of the American heartland. The P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.
Publisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 0061866520
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
“David Laskin deploys historical fact of the finest grain to tell the story of a monstrous blizzard that caught the settlers of the Great Plains utterly by surprise. . . . This is a book best read with a fire roaring in the hearth and a blanket and box of tissues near at hand.” — Erik Larson, author of The Devil in the White City “Heartbreaking. . . . This account of the 1888 blizzard reads like a thriller.” — Entertainment Weekly The gripping true story of an epic prairie snowstorm that killed hundreds of newly arrived settlers and cast a shadow on the promise of the American frontier. 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. But that afternoon, without warning, the atmosphere suddenly, violently changed. One moment the air was calm; the next the sky exploded in a raging chaos of horizontal snow and hurricane-force winds. Temperatures plunged as an unprecedented cold front ripped through the center of the continent. By the next morning, some five hundred people lay dead on the drifted prairie, many of them children who had perished on their way home from country schools. In a few terrifying hours, the hopes of the pioneers had been blasted by the bitter realities of their harsh environment. Recent immigrants from Germany, Norway, Denmark, and the Ukraine learned that their free homestead was not a paradise but a hard, unforgiving place governed by natural forces they neither understood nor controlled. With the storm as its dramatic, heartbreaking focal point, The Children's Blizzard captures this pivotal moment in American history by tracing the stories of five families who were forever changed that day. David Laskin has produced a masterful portrait of a tragic crucible in the settlement of the American heartland. The P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.
The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Official Congressional Directory
Author: United States. Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1272
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1272
Book Description
Annual Report of the Board of Tax Commissioners Made to the Governor of the State of Rhode Island
Author: Rhode Island. Board of Tax Commissioners
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Taxation
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Taxation
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
The National Cyclopædia of American Biography
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
"I Said Yes"
Author: Harlan W. Van Gerpen
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1463448244
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
Experiences from growing up on a farm and having an exciting career both in the military and foreign travel.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1463448244
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
Experiences from growing up on a farm and having an exciting career both in the military and foreign travel.
Report of the Board of Tax Commissioners Made to the Governor of the State of Rhode Island
Author: Rhode Island. Board of Tax Commissioners
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Taxation
Languages : en
Pages : 1176
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Taxation
Languages : en
Pages : 1176
Book Description