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Letters recall hardships of homestead life The Norman TranscriptAnd the settlers hardly could have anticipated the loneliness, the droughts, hail, grasshopper hordes and bitter winters.
There's a touching account of the Children's Blizzard of 1888. It blew in during school hours, and 19 children died in just one place. Most of the families started with sod houses or fragile tar-paper shacks that barely qualified as dwellings required under the Homestead Act. Some living conditions got better, and some got worse. Some families stayed and some left, and people from both groups told of their day-to-day experiences as well as the turning points of their lives. Kinsella, an experienced author, has produced a valuable book that probably will teach some of us things about the lives our ancestors lived. 
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