01413cam a2200265 i 4500 478072017 TxAuBib 20210116120000.0 200608s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020019691 9780399182297 ebook 0399182292 ebook TxAuBib rda Benjamin, Melanie, 1962- The children's blizzard : a novel / Melanie Benjamin. First edition. New York : Delacorte Press, [2021] txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "They came on boats, on trains, great unceasing waves of them-the poor, the disenfranchised, the seekers, the dreamers. Second and third generations of farmers eking out an existence on scraps of farms divided up among too many sons. Political agitators no longer welcome in their homelands. Young men fleeing conscription in a king's army. Married couples starting out. Bachelors from towns with few women. The poor in tenements with air so stifling and foul there was no room to breathe, let alone dream. Come to Nebraska! Dakota Territory! Minnesota! Come to the Great Plains of America!"-- Provided by publisher. 20210116. Domestic fiction. Historical fiction.