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Author : Candice Ransom
Release : 2016
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 523/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Day of the Black Blizzard by : Candice Ransom
Download or read book The Day of the Black Blizzard written by Candice Ransom. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ory Jenkins and his sister become stranded in the Black Sunday dust storm of April 14, 1935, and must find a way to survive.
Author : Kristin Johnson
Release : 2017
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 748/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Black Blizzard by : Kristin Johnson
Download or read book Black Blizzard written by Kristin Johnson. This book was released on 2017. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A team's school bus breaks down in the middle of the desert after a disappointing loss at the State Championships, and a gathering dust storm threatens to turn their bus into a death trap. It will take some quick thinking to get through this!"--
Author : Frank L. Stallings
Release : 2001
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 285/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Black Sunday by : Frank L. Stallings
Download or read book Black Sunday written by Frank L. Stallings. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One giant, black dust storm in April of 1935 became the signature event of a devastating period in the history of the South Plains of the United States. The author, who grew up in Pampa in the Texas Panhandle, gathered a collection of reminiscences, reports, and responses to the storm by individuals who had been in it, and by newspapers that had reported about it, then reflected about the storm during the following years. But this is basically an oral history of interviews with well over 100 people and their personal experiences on that Black Sunday in the mid-thirties.
Author : Yoshihiro Tatsumi
Release : 2010-04-13
Genre : Comics & Graphic Novels
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 126/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Black Blizzard by : Yoshihiro Tatsumi
Download or read book Black Blizzard written by Yoshihiro Tatsumi. This book was released on 2010-04-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE PREEMMINENT GEKIGA-KA'S FIRST GRAPHIC NOVEL FROM FIFTY YEARS AGO Created in the late 1950s,Black Blizzard is Yoshihiro Tatsumi's remarkable first full-length graphic novel and one of the first published examples of Gekiga. Tatsumi documented how his love for Mickey Spillane and hard-boiled crime novels led him to create this landmark genre of manga in his epic, critically acclaimed 2009 autobiography, A Drifting Life. With Black Blizzard, Tatsumi explores the dark underbelly of his working-class heroes that five decades later has made him one of the best-known Japanese cartoonists in North America. Susumu Yamaji, a twenty-four-year-old pianist, is arrested formurder and ends up handcuffed to a career criminal on the train that will take them to prison. An avalanche derails the train and the criminal takes the opportunity to escape, dragging a reluctant Susumu with him into the blizzard raging outside. They flee into the mountains to an abandoned ranger station, where they take shelter from the storm. As they sit around the fire they built, Susumu relates how love drove him to become a murderer. A cinematic adventure story, Black Blizzard uncovers an unlikely love story and an even unlikelier friendship.
Author : David Laskin
Release : 2009-10-13
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 520/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Children's Blizzard by : David Laskin
Download or read book The Children's Blizzard written by David Laskin. This book was released on 2009-10-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “David Laskin deploys historical fact of the finest grain to tell the story of a monstrous blizzard that caught the settlers of the Great Plains utterly by surprise. . . . This is a book best read with a fire roaring in the hearth and a blanket and box of tissues near at hand.” — Erik Larson, author of The Devil in the White City “Heartbreaking. . . . This account of the 1888 blizzard reads like a thriller.” — Entertainment Weekly The gripping true story of an epic prairie snowstorm that killed hundreds of newly arrived settlers and cast a shadow on the promise of the American frontier. January 12, 1888, began as an unseasonably warm morning across Nebraska, the Dakotas, and Minnesota, the weather so mild that children walked to school without coats and gloves. But that afternoon, without warning, the atmosphere suddenly, violently changed. One moment the air was calm; the next the sky exploded in a raging chaos of horizontal snow and hurricane-force winds. Temperatures plunged as an unprecedented cold front ripped through the center of the continent. By the next morning, some five hundred people lay dead on the drifted prairie, many of them children who had perished on their way home from country schools. In a few terrifying hours, the hopes of the pioneers had been blasted by the bitter realities of their harsh environment. Recent immigrants from Germany, Norway, Denmark, and the Ukraine learned that their free homestead was not a paradise but a hard, unforgiving place governed by natural forces they neither understood nor controlled. With the storm as its dramatic, heartbreaking focal point, The Children's Blizzard captures this pivotal moment in American history by tracing the stories of five families who were forever changed that day. David Laskin has produced a masterful portrait of a tragic crucible in the settlement of the American heartland. The P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.
