Her only friends were Tor and his little brother Fredrik, two of her classmates. Her only advocate was her teacher, Raina. Anette was abused, overworked and lived in constant fear. Pedersen used Anette as a servant and mistreated the child terribly. Anette was rejected by her family, and her own mother sold her to the Pedersens for two chickens and a pig.
Also living in the home was little Anette, one of Raina’s students. Anna Pedersen was an unhappy and hateful woman, and life under her roof had been difficult to say the least. She was boarding with a local family, the Pedersens. Raina Olsen was a sixteen year old immigrant schoolteacher at a one room schoolhouse in Nebraska. Life was nothing but a struggle and poverty for the new settlers, and many of those who were able to move back home did so. The “wonderful” farmland turned out to be a desert with harsh blizzards, prairie fires, aggressive grasshoppers and tornados. A new railroad was built, and immigrants arrived in droves having no idea that everything they were promised was a lie. Native Americans were cruelly pushed out so immigrants could move in.
These relocation decisions were based on widely publicized news reports falsely promising a better, more prosperous life on acres upon acres of rich, fruitful farmland. The storm killed at least 235 people, many of whom were schoolchildren trying to walk home.ĭuring the 1800s, masses of European immigrants uprooted their families and their lives to move to Nebraska and Dakota Territory. The Children’s Blizzard is a new release by Melanie Benjamin.īased on actual events, The Children’s Blizzard is a historical fiction novel about one of the most deadly blizzards in American history.
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