I Survived the Children's Blizzard, 1888
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Hattie Big Sky, by Kirby Larson, Random House, 2006
Our Only May Amelia, by Jennifer L. Holm, HarperCollins, 1999
To learn more about Sioux people:
The Christmas Coat: Memories of My Sioux Childhood, by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve, Holiday House, 2011
Greet the Dawn: The Lakota Way, by S. D. Nelson, South Dakota State Historical Society, 2012
Indian Boyhood, by Charles A. Eastman, 1902; Dover paperback, 1971
My favorite book about a blizzard is about the other blizzard of 1888, the one that hit the East Coast, including New York City:
Blizzard! The Storm That Changed America, by Jim Murphy, Scholastic, 2000
Buggies, Blizzards, and Babies, by Cora Frear Hawkins, Iowa State University Press, 1st edition, 1971
The Children’s Blizzard, by David Laskin, HarperCollins, 2004
A Good Year to Die: The Story of the Great Sioux War, by Charles M. Robinson III, Random House, 1995
Harvest of Grief: Grasshopper Plagues and Public Assistance in Minnesota, 1873–78, by Annette Atkins, Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1984
A History of US: Book 7: Reconstruction and Reform (1865–1896), by Joy Hakim, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press paperback, 1999
Indian Boyhood, by Charles A. Eastman, 1902; Dover paperback, 1971
Letters of a Woman Homesteader, by Elinore Pruitt Stewart, with illustrations by N. C. Wyeth, Mariner/Houghton Mifflin paperback, 1988
No Time on My Hands, by Grace Snyder, Bison Books/University of Nebraska Press, 1986
Old Rail Fence Corners: Frontier Tales Told by Minnesota Pioneers, by Daughters of the American Revolution, edited by Lucy L. W. Morris, Publications of the Minnesota Historical Society, reprint edition, 1976
Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier, by Joanna L. Stratton, with an introduction by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Simon & Schuster, 1st Touchstone edition, 1982
Rachel Calof’s Story: Jewish Homesteader on the Northern Plains, by Rachel Calof, edited by J. Sanford Rikoon, Indiana University Press, 1995
Undaunted Courage, by Stephen E. Ambrose, Simon & Schuster, 1996
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl, by Timothy Egan, Houghton Mifflin, 2006
Special thanks to Devon Ward and Marlene Burr Ward, and to the Blue Earth County Historical Society in Mankato, Minnesota; the Center for Western Studies in Sioux Falls, South Dakota; the Minnesota History Museum in St. Paul, Minnesota; and the Jerauld County Pioneer Museum in Wessington, South Dakota, for providing me with primary source materials — articles, journals, and photographs — that helped me in my research.
THE DESTRUCTION OF POMPEII, AD 79
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, 1776
THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG, 1863
THE GREAT CHICAGO FIRE, 1871
THE SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE, 1906
THE SINKING OF THE TITANIC, 1912
THE SHARK ATTACKS OF 1916
THE HINDENBURG DISASTER, 1937
THE BOMBING OF PEARL HARBOR, 1941
THE NAZI INVASION, 1944
THE ERUPTION OF MOUNT ST. HELENS, 1980
THE ATTACKS OF SEPTEMBER 11, 2001
HURRICANE KATRINA, 2005
THE JAPANESE TSUNAMI, 2011
THE JOPLIN TORNADO, 2011
LAUREN TARSHIS IN FRONT OF A SOUTH DAKOTA SOD HOUSE
Lauren Tarshis’s New York Times bestselling I Survived series tells stories of young people and their resilience and strength in the midst of unimaginable disasters. Lauren has brought her signature warmth, integrity, and exhaustive research to topics such as the September 11 attacks, the American Revolution, Hurricane Katrina, and the bombing of Pearl Harbor, among others. Lauren lives in Westport, Connecticut, and can be found online at www.laurentarshis.com.
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