The Beautiful Snow: The Ingalls Family, the Railroads, and the Hard Winter of 1880-81

ISBN-10: 1643439057
ISBN-13: 9781643439051
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Pages: 376
Language: English
Published: 2020-02-07
Publisher: Beaver's Pond Press
Author: Cindy Wilson

Description

Explore a lively and rewarding new look at the Hard Winter of 1880-81, weaving the historical record, as revealed through regional newspapers, around and through Laura Ingalls Wilder's fictional The Long Winter.

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