The winter of 1880/81, popularized by author Laura Ingalls Wilder’s 1940 novel “the long winter” was variously described as “the hard winter” “the black winter” the “long winter,” the “starvation wint This book goes into documented details of the winter of 1880-81 in the Midwestern United … The winter of 1880–1881 is widely considered the most severe winter ever known in the United States. Feed Loader The Long, Hard Winter, I downloaded this book because of my obsession with Laura Ingalls Wilder and South Dakota history, two of my favorite topics to read about. The Ingalls twisted slough hay into sticks and burned that after their coal was gone. Anticipating a bad winter, the Ingalls family moves to De Smet, population 80, from their shanty a mile outside of town. - Kindle edition by White, Dan L.. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. A blizzard is a severe snowstorm characterized by strong sustained winds of at least 56 km/h (35 mph) and lasting for a prolonged period of time—typically three hours or more. 1883. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Long, Hard Winter of 1880-81: What was it really like?. The winter of 1880/81, popularized by author Laura Ingalls Wilder’s 1940 novel “The Long Winter,” was variously described as “the hard winter,” “the black winter,” the “long winter,” the “starvation winter,” or the “snow winter.” Journalist J Mark Powell wrote in January, 2018 “Think you’ve seen severe winter … The Long, Hard Winter of 1880-81: What was it really like? Both meteorological records and historical accounts indicate that the winter was particularly long, snowy, and cold. Re: 1880/81 winter , the long winter … The first blizzard blows through unexpectedly in October 1880. The “hard winter” almost wipes out the town of De Smet (described in Wilder’s book, "The Long Winter"). The Long Winter of 1880-81. 1880-1881. The Long Winter is an autobiographical children's novel written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and published in 1940, the sixth of nine books in her Little House series.It is set in southeastern Dakota Territory during the severe winter of 1880–1881, when she turned 14 years old. The month of February 2021 will long be remembered across the central United States as an unusually frigid one, especially in the southern Plains and lower Mississippi Valley where record cold and snow was experienced that many locations had not seen in decades. A ground blizzard is a weather condition where snow is not falling but loose snow on the ground is lifted and blown by strong winds. 1880-1881. I don't complain about winter too much because here we haven't had a really rough one in 40 years. 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