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Sidenote: As part of his book tour, Laskin is scheduled for a talk and book signing at the Old Courthouse Museum in Sioux Falls at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 27, and at the Freeman Public Library in Freeman at noon on Wednesday, April 28.

Book Review: The Long Way Home by David Laskin « A Progressive on the Prairie 2010

Sidenote: As part of his book tour, Laskin is scheduled for a talk and book signing at the Old Courthouse Museum in Sioux Falls at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 27, and at the Freeman Public Library in Freeman at noon on Wednesday, April 28.

A Progressive on the Prairie » Book Review: The Long Way Home by David Laskin » Print 2010

Laskin is pretty much correct – the lefties have it all over the right when it comes to the size and scope of their respective smear machines.

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Browse an author interview and biography of David Laskin.

An interview with David Laskin 2010

Toronto, when I got there, was experiencing quite a golden age with Bora Laskin and many interesting professors.

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Laskin tells the fate of the schoolteacher who attempts to lead his class to a nearby home; we hear about teachers who keep the children in the schoolhouse, burning whatever they can to try to keep the children warm; we read about teacher Etta Shattuck who had closed the school for the day but sets out to go to the train station for a trip home to visit her family.

Kate Kelly: Weather at Its Worst: The Schoolhouse Blizzard Kate Kelly 2011

As Laskin describes it, the scale of prairie weather was shocking even to the Norwegians settling there; they were a group who had had plenty of experience with snow and cold.

Kate Kelly: Weather at Its Worst: The Schoolhouse Blizzard Kate Kelly 2011

The dozen individuals Laskin particularly focuses upon never doubted their loyalty.

A Progressive on the Prairie » Book Review: The Long Way Home by David Laskin » Print 2010

As Laskin makes clear, while cities in the late nineteenth century may have benefited from the telegraph and other forms of progress that might have been helpful, those who farmed the Great Plains had no way of learning the weather in a timely manner, other than looking skyward.

Kate Kelly: Weather at Its Worst: The Schoolhouse Blizzard Kate Kelly 2011

Laskin quotes numerous documents where residents noted that the morning of January 12 was almost balmy in comparison to the frigid weather they had had.

Kate Kelly: Weather at Its Worst: The Schoolhouse Blizzard Kate Kelly 2011