The Beautiful Snow: The Ingalls Family, The Railroads, and the Hard Winter of 1880-1881 by Cindy Wilson
Lively and rewarding, The Beautiful Snow is a new look at the Hard Winter. Pulling from nearly three thousand regional newspaper articles, The Beautiful Snow weaves the historical record around and through Wilder’s fictionalized account of The Long Winter. From the tireless efforts to dig out the railroad blockades, to lavish oyster parties, to carefully spun boosterism, the Hard Winter comes to life with extraordinary tales of survival, resilience, and defiance that add rich context to Wilder’s beloved novel.
The Beautiful Snow: The Ingalls Family, The Railroads, and the Hard Winter of 1880-1881 by Cindy Wilson, paperback, 358 pages, includes index, endnotes, and credits.
Lively and rewarding, The Beautiful Snow is a new look at the Hard Winter. Pulling from nearly three thousand regional newspaper articles, The Beautiful Snow weaves the historical record around and through Wilder’s fictionalized account of The Long Winter. From the tireless efforts to dig out the railroad blockades, to lavish oyster parties, to carefully spun boosterism, the Hard Winter comes to life with extraordinary tales of survival, resilience, and defiance that add rich context to Wilder’s beloved novel.
“The end of March came. April began. Still the storm was there, waiting a little longer now perhaps but striking even more furiously. There was the bitter cold still, and the dark storm days, that wheat to be ground, the hay to be twisted.” ~~The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Beautiful Snow by Cindy Wilson
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The Beautiful Snow: The Ingalls Family, The Railroads, and the Hard Winter of 1880-1881 by Cindy Wilson
Lively and rewarding, The Beautiful Snow is a new look at the Hard Winter. Pulling from nearly three thousand regional newspaper articles, The Beautiful Snow weaves the historical record around and through Wilder’s fictionalized account of The Long Winter. From the tireless efforts to dig out the railroad blockades, to lavish oyster parties, to carefully spun boosterism, the Hard Winter comes to life with extraordinary tales of survival, resilience, and defiance that add rich context to Wilder’s beloved novel.
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The Beautiful Snow: The Ingalls Family, The Railroads, and the Hard Winter of 1880-1881 by Cindy Wilson, paperback, 358 pages, includes index, endnotes, and credits.
Lively and rewarding, The Beautiful Snow is a new look at the Hard Winter. Pulling from nearly three thousand regional newspaper articles, The Beautiful Snow weaves the historical record around and through Wilder’s fictionalized account of The Long Winter. From the tireless efforts to dig out the railroad blockades, to lavish oyster parties, to carefully spun boosterism, the Hard Winter comes to life with extraordinary tales of survival, resilience, and defiance that add rich context to Wilder’s beloved novel.
“The end of March came. April began. Still the storm was there, waiting a little longer now perhaps but striking even more furiously. There was the bitter cold still, and the dark storm days, that wheat to be ground, the hay to be twisted.” ~~The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder
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