Publisher Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc.
The sixth book in the Little House Books series. Laura is 14 and it is winter in Dakota 1880-81. This book portrays the true story of severe blizzard times and the brave search for a cache of wheat to stop the townspeople from starving. Runner up for the Newbery Medal in 1941.
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The Long Winter, published in 1940 and sixth in the series, covers the shortest time span of the novels, only an eight-month period. The winter of 1880–1881 was a notably severe winter in history, sometimes known as "The Snow Winter." The story begins in Dakota Territory at the Ingalls homestead in South Dakota on a hot September day in 1880 as Laura and her father ("Pa") are haying. Pa tells Laura that he knows the winter is going to be hard because muskrats always build a house with thick walls before a hard winter, and this year they have built the thickest walls he has ever seen.
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