The Long Hard Winter of 1880-81: What was it Really Like?
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| Rating | : | 4.54 (658 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1466477687 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 156 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-14 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
White examines the reality of the long, hard winter. Was Laura's story just fiction, or was that one winter stranger than fiction? Was that winter really that bad, or was it just a typical old time winter stretched a bit to make a good tale? Author Dan L. She wrote of three day blizzards, forty ton trains stuck in the snow, houses buried in snowdrifts and a town that nearly starved. Laura Ingalls Wilder's classic novel The Long Winter tells the riveting story of the winter of 1880-81. White uses contemporary newspaper articles, autobiographies and historical accounts of those who lived through that time to weave a fascinating story of the incredible winter of 1880-81.
It's okay,,,, Andrea M. Lerum I was so excited to read this book and learn some interesting facts about that terrible winter that Laura Ingalls Wilder describes in "The Long Winter", but when I finished the book, I had only learned a few anecdotes and not much else. Had I not read a 1976 biography of Larua, entitled "Laura", I would have been much more impressed. However, Mr. White seems to have copied verbatim f. "Excellent" according to koshernet7. On reading other reviews of this book I was a little skeptical of reading it but I thought it was very well written and I didn't notice choppy sentences at all. I definitely loved reading and I will read it again in the future. Any Laura Ingalls Wilder fan will love this book.. I READ IT IN ONE NIGHT COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN!! Jaimelyn My favorite book is "The Long Winter" by Laura Ingalls Wilder, so when I saw this book, I just had to get it. I wanted to learn more about that time in history. The interesting thing about this book is that it talks about what that Winter was like all over the country and then it gets into what people had to go through when the snow began to melt in the Spring. I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS