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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.
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Feb 3, 2012 · The Long Winter. Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams (Illustrator) 4.17. 88,193 ratings2,543 reviews. 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. It snowed almost without stopping until April. The temperature dropped to forty below.
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Feb 24, 2021 · 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...
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Apr 8, 2008 · The adventures of Laura Ingalls and her family continue as Pa, Ma, Laura, Mary, Carrie, and little Grace bravely face the hard winter of 1880-81 in their little house in the Dakota Territory. Blizzards cover the little town with snow, cutting off all supplies from the outside.
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Sep 27, 2011 · Then the awful months-long winter starts. The town faces starvation as the trains cannot get through with supplies. As Laura grows up, so the books do, and this touches on more mature themes - rough and angry men, a young bachelor household, Ma's racism towards Native Americans.
The town of De Smet in the Dakota Territory is hit with terrible blizzards in the hard winter of 1880-81, and the Ingalls family must ration their food and coal. When the supply train doesn’t...
Mar 8, 2016 · The Long Winter (Little House on the Prairie Book 6) Kindle Edition. by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Author), Garth Williams (Illustrator) Format: Kindle Edition. 4.8 3,097 ratings. Book 6 of 9: Little House on the Prairie. Teachers' pick. See all formats and editions.
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