The Children's Blizzard

In 1888, a huge storm unexpectedly swept across the American plains. Many of its victims were children returning home from school. The end result of the sweep of the storm was that more than half of the people who lived on the plains ended up moving and leaving the plains by the beginning of the next century.

David Laskin tells the stories of many of those caught in the storm, most of whom were recently arrived immigrants from Europe in search of farmland.