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    <body><![CDATA[This is a powerful story, of an event little known outside the Upper Midwest. This is the story of a freak blizzard of incredible intensity, that left hundreds dead, many of them school children trying to make their way home from country schools.<br/><br/>I've always been interested in the late 18...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3324339">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another danger that the early settlers to the plains had to worry about---blizzards. Laskin lays out the historical groundwork, and fills it in. Some parts are painful to read, realizing how little was known about frostbite and hypothermia in the 1880's, let alone communications. I was touched by th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45159645">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i bought this at the sale section in wall drug, south dakota. not wanting to spend $500 on a fake buffalo rug, i thought a $6 book would be a more intelligent choice. i still stand by that theory, however, i have to say, if you find this book for more than $6 outside of wall drug, i probably wouldn'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3684017">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love reading non-fiction books.  Especially about disasters - does that make me sick?? I didn't know about this story...it was an okay book but interesting to read.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The children's blizard of 1888 is a well researched and well written book.  On Jan. 12, 1888, the sun came up on a beautiful day with moderating temperatures in the Dakotas and Minnesota.  Many children went to scholl without their boots, hats, gloves and warm coats.  Mary farmers ventured out to wo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39433399">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book, although history and not fiction, reads like a gripping thriller.  (I had trouble putting it down.)  And it's about weather, no less!<br/><br/>But this is not about an ordinary storm.  Frowing up in Minnesota, I've seen many dangerous, life-threatening blizzards myself but nothing that ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76627219">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Stayed up until 3 a.m reading this book!  Foolish, foolish!  And it totally freaked me out too.  All those children freezing to death.  Horrible.  The weird thing is the author kept making references to 9/11 and how the scale of the School Children's Blizzard disaster was similar and I was reading i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70731252">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was my second time through reading this book---both times for book clubs.  Geez, I wish I retained things better.  The only thing I retain is water.<br/>Part of me really enjoyed this book.  I found myself really interested in the five families the author concentrated on, their immigration jou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38167654">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I applaud Laskin for his effort - it must be hard work to take an account of the <em>scariest blizzard ever</em> and turn it into a sloppy, sodden, <em>boring</em> mess.<br/><br/>The blatant, sloppy mistakes early on were my first clue that all was not <em>quite</em> right in the state of Denmark. (For instance! Laskin quot...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78102744">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Now and then the month of January or February would bring a warmer than usual day when I was a child growing up in Illinois. We kids would relish that weather, and once we went for a &quot;hike&quot; of perhaps 3 or 4 miles.  Later in the day the temperature had dropped significantly so our &quot;hi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57528921">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A book that reminded me that I came from hearty pioneer stock in Nebraska. My great-great grandparents were out on the plains when this happened. Fascinating and tragic. I learned about the politics of weather forecasting and about what freezing to death entails exactly. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book would be great for someone who is really interested in becoming a meteorologist.  It goes into extremely deep explanations of how weather patterns work, getting into depths way over the average person's understanding.  I felt like I was wading through waistdeep snow just trying to get thro...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58864551">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm a southwestern girl.  Fascinated with the plains since Little House on the Prairie (the book, I'm not a kid).  This is the book to start with! Learned more about the history of those who homesteaded, and the &quot;how&quot; of those blizzards, as well as the politics and applied science and tech...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80758794">more...</a>]]></body>
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