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The Long Winter. The Long Winter is an autobiographical children's novel written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and published in 1940, the sixth of nine books in her Little House series. It is set in southeastern Dakota Territory during the severe winter of 1880–1881, when she turned 14 years old. The novel was a runner-up for the Newbery Medal in ...
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
- 325; 334 pp.
- 1940
- June 15, 1940
Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams (Illustrator) 4.17. 87,797ratings2,528reviews. Shop this series. Rate this book. On the empty winter prairie, gray clouds to the northwest meant only one thing: a blizzard was seconds away. The first blizzard came in October. It snowed almost without stopping until April. The temperature dropped to forty below.
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The Long Winter is an autobiographical children's novel written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and published in 1940, the sixth of nine books in her Little House series. It is set in southeastern Dakota Territory during the severe winter of 1880–1881, when she turned 14 years old.
Sep 27, 2011 · Then the awful months-long winter starts. The town faces starvation as the trains cannot get through with supplies. As Laura grows up, so the books do, and this touches on more mature themes - rough and angry men, a young bachelor household, Ma's racism towards Native Americans.
Nov 2, 2021 · The long winter by Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 1867-1957. ... America - Historical novel Publisher London : Puffin Collection printdisabled; internetarchivebooks ...
The fledgling town of De Smet in the Dakota Territory is hit hard by the brutal winter of 1880-1881. Laura, Pa, Ma, Mary, Carrie, and little Grace face the winter as best they can, but soon, blizzards have covered the town in snow that piles up to the rooftops, cutting the town off from supplies and trade. Food stores begin to run dangerously ...
Aug 11, 2020 · Barbara Mayes Boustead (University of Nebraska—Lincoln) and her coauthors show us in a recent BAMS article that Wilder’s, The Long Winter, isn’t just good history wrapped into a great novel–it’s also valuable climate data. The cold, snowy season of 1880-81 featured in The Long Winter was strikingly difficult across much of the Plains ...
