| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 33.2

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Book Review

Children of the Storm: The True Story of the Pleasant Hill Bus Tragedy. By Adriana Harker and Clark Secrest. (Golden, CO: Fulcrum Publishing, 2001. Illustrations, map, notes, bibliography, index. xviii + 139 pp. $12.95.)

     On March 26, 1931, in southeastern Colorado, an unexpected blizzard trapped twenty children, ages seven to fourteen, and their driver for thirty-three hours in a makeshift school bus. Three children died before rescue, two shortly after, and the driver perished seeking help. This horrible ordeal caught the attention of the press, particularly the publisher of the Denver Post, and eventually the interest of President Herbert Hoover. 1

     Adriana Harker and Clark Secrest, in their book, Children of the Storm: The True Story of the Pleasant Hill Bus Tragedy, through interviews with survivors and their contemporaries and careful reading of accounts printed at the time and since, try to distinguish what actually happened from the distortions that followed. 2

     First, the text explores the world of subsistence farming before electricity and plumbing, when this disaster occurred. Though houses were not physically close, the people were all acquainted and helped each other in times of need. Then, the authors reconstruct, in painfully meticulous detail, what the children actually experienced, hour by hour. . . .

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