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This is part of the orginal Little house books. There is a big snow storm and families wonder how they will survive with out food.
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Made me think hard about the conditions the settlers had to endure!
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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. Then it snowed almost without stopping until April. The temperature dropped to forty below zero. Snow reached the rooftops. Worst of all, no trains could get through with food and coal. The townspeople began to starve. The Ingalls family wondered if they'd make it through the winter. Finally, Almanzo Wilder knew he would have to risk his life to save the town.
Victoria T. (justicepirate) reviewed The Long Winter (Little House, Bk 6) on + 350 more book reviews
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Very good book. I love how you learn so much about that time's history about how they did things. I had no idea they had steam powered snowplows. It was exciting to read about Almonzo and Cap Garland's adventure they took which really helped save the town. What a rough things to go through so many months of blizzards. Makes me truly appreciate the short months of snow we get here in NJ
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Somehow I never read these as a child. Now I volunteer at a little museum dedicated to Arizona's pioneer history, and it seems every child who comes in is reading (or watching) Little House on the Prairie. This one is pretty gripping, with all the foreshadowing of the terrible winter shown as the Ingalls make hay and then the descriptions of the howling wind, the frost inside the house, twisting hay to burn, and the hunger. I was really interested in all their survival tactics. I often hear the young mothers who visit us say "Oh wasn't it better to live in simpler times!" I don't actually scoff at them but I do ask them to think about things like going to the dentist, dying in childbirth, and the sheer physical labor involved in every daily task. Now I can talk about winter - although here in central AZ that's not going to impress anyone.
