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The Long Winter follows the Ingalls family as they leave their rough claim shanty for town after a fierce October blizzard. In South Dakota, the family faces a brutal winter foretold by a Sioux Indian—a season of ongoing storms and hardships that tests their resilience and unity. The novel captures the rugged pioneer spirit, family bonds, and the harsh realities of frontier life in the nineteenth century.
First publish date: October 1999
Genre: Children's Fiction/Children's Adventure
Authors: Laura Ingalls Wilder
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